Recently, my son, a young journalist, wrote an interesting story for the Santa Cruz Sentinel: “Despite significant health challenges, 15-year-old Santa Cruzan Tess Dunn finds herself rocking out ...”
The Online Etymology Dictionary explains the origins of the concept of “disease” a follows:
diseaseearly 14c., “discomfort,” from O.Fr. desaise, from des- “without, away” (see dis-) + aise “ease” (see ease). Sense of “sickness, illness” first recorded late 14c.; the word still sometimes was used in its lit. sense early 17c. Related: Diseased.Early 14c., “discomfort,” from O.Fr. desaise, from des- “without, away” (see dis-) + aise “ease” (see ease). Sense of “sickness, illness” first recorded late 14c.; the word still sometimes was used in its lit. sense early 17c. Related: Diseased.
To be sure, many of our DIS-EASES have physical etiologies, longevity being one of the more common causes of our DIS-EASE in our modern era. But I cannot help but wonder how many of my DIS-EASES only occurred when some doctor or advertising company or friend, took it upon themselves to inform me of some disease that, up until that point, had casued me no DIS-EASE.
So which is it? Is our DIS-EASE “out there” or “in here”?
Maybe we can learn something from Tess Dunn who seems to have found an answer to her DIS-EASE that works for her.
