The article discusses 'insensible losses,' a term reflecting the unnoticed diminishment of important aspects in life, such as health or love. It highlights a personal anecdote involving a trip to Cabo San Lucas, emphasizing how unnoticed dehydration can parallel the gradual loss of love in relationships. Encouraging readers to avoid waiting for a wake-up call, it urges awareness of the subtle losses that accumulate over time, advocating for proactive measures to maintain health, kindness in relationships, and environmental care.
Some couples I've treated say their love slipped away without them realizing it until an incident triggered awareness, and one said to the other, "I don't love you anymore. I don't even like you." Neither knew when it happened.
Insensible losses in medicine refer to lost bodily fluid that is not easily measured, from breathing or sweating. I think for a long time about how you can lose something essential to you and not realize it until it's gone.
Muscle strength and flexibility leak away with age, and you don't feel it happening, you just try one day to open a tight jar, and you can't, or you pick up a heavy suitcase and your back goes out.
The times you failed to be kind to someone you love, not realizing the silent damage being done; the whole world's hubris in throwing out plastic, polluting the ocean and killing some of its precious sea creatures.
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