Normally I'm very inclined to try to do everything the natural way, for example it was important for me psychologically to get off Metformin because I just instinctively think that you shouldn't tamper with complicated things like the human body, it kind of knows more than we do because the blueprint has been around a lot longer that we have and has undergone many revisions to find a way of getting us to where we are now.
When I saw the GP recently and he said I should book a flu jab on the way out, I originally ignored him and left without booking it. Then I dithered and a few days later booked it and had it done for the first time ever.
To be honest as I'm getting older I'm starting to become more of a realist.
I needed glasses when I was quite young, so there's one very important artificial augmentation already.
And I wear shoes all the time. I don't like what would happen to my feet if I tried going on a walk in the countryside with bare feet.
And I couldn't survive a winter without clothes.
And I don't like it when I grow a big beard, because rabbits get caught in it, so I shave it off using tools that somebody else has invented and special foam which stops it hurting.
Ditto my fingernails and toenails.
I think somehow we muddle through, and the better our brains get at creating methods to help our bodies, the more our bodies can afford to be a bit rubbish. There's a whole interesting topic about evolution there I think.
So getting the flu jab may or may not be a great idea, and I'm finding it very hard to feel strongly about it either way.