I accept health as my natural state of being.

You don't think about your left knee until the day it complains. Health, when it's working, is mostly silence, a body settling ten thousand negotiations an hour without sending anything upstairs for approval.

Calling it natural doesn't mean nothing goes wrong. It means the direction of travel is toward repair. Cut a finger and nobody supervises the healing. It closes because closing is what the tissue does.

That's a reasonable thing to lean on when a body feels like an argument you're losing. Whatever else is happening, something in there is still on shift, still trying, with no instruction from you at all.