Smells and Bells

Professor Kirkpatrick’s lecture brought our whole experience of learning about each sense full circle. After considering each of them individually, and their vital biological purpose for our survival, it is quite baffling to realize that we simply would be “blobs that do nothing” if we were completely senseless. As I was sitting doing my homework and considering the possibility of being absolutely nothing, I began to feel rather lethargic and useless, "perhaps", I thought, "I feel this way because I have only been using my vision, one sense, for the past four hours. It seems that, as humans have been gifted with so many senses, that being human to our full capacity must require the use of all our senses, as much as possible throughout every activity. If this is true, than I have often been failing to be a human to my full capacity." I started to hear a raucous in the next room and the smell of popcorn which both drew me in, so went to investigate, only to find a pi...