RE: The Sun: It's Good For You, Until It Burns
I remember my mom was always saying things like "go out and get some sun! It will do you good!"
Now, I happen to have very fair "northern" skin, so there was always a limit to that, and because I'm not fond of getting to look like a freshly cooked lobster, I don't spend a lot of time in the sun.
That aside, we do seem to live in a world that increasingly "medicalizes" our normal daily actions. Here, you are covering the sun, and our "manufactured" fears of it. Similar things happening in the mental health industry where feelings and emotions previously considered *"part of the normal spectrum of human experience" are being turned into "syndromes" we supposedly need "treatment" for.
I can't help but think we are stunting our own evolution here when things like "being extremely creative" have become a mental illness. Mozart would have been drugged into oblivion...
I used to get the same treatment, but I usually had no problem going outside anyway.
Yeah I've had some brutal encounters with the sun, and have some damage here and there from some bad sunburns of the past. These days I'm often covered in sleeves, hat and even gloves, I don't need that much light, and I don't need anymore sunburns.
I have noticed the trend towards naming human behavior of different kinds 'syndromes' and disorders. Then of course there's a disorder for those who notice such things and question authority; Oppositional Defiance Disorder, or ODD. There's a pill for that.