Lightning began to flash in the sky, and the roaring sound of sparks radiating in the turbulent sky overlapped with the silent flight of the sea gulls. The sky was covered with dark clouds, the drizzling rain that came down from them merged with the drops of salt water that covered my body. Suddenly the wind began to blow harder, the water became agitated and the dance of restless waves became more and more lively, and the strikes of the waves onto the fairytale rocks at the end of the sandy beach became stronger. The Creation of Adam (Italian: Creazione di Adamo), Michaelangelo Buonaroti part of the vault of the Sistine Chapel Will we ever find the answers to all the questions that interest us, and there are so many of them? The view of the beautiful landscape on the coast immediately reminds us of all the riches of nature that our planet Earth has given us.Ī look into the beautiful, endless blue sky tosses us into the world of the macrocosm, in which we are so small, and which we would like to find out so much about. If we dive in, we don’t know which way to go, where to start researching.
I am neither well equipped nor mentally prepared for the journey into the unknown, and yet unexpectedly I can picture a man floating calmly on the surface of the sea, staring at the sky and the surroundings. Beneath him is the micro world, the blue sea, unexplored to a large extent with all the beauty of the flora and the fauna and the interesting world of microorganisms that it provides. So let’s all, together, embark on an interesting journey of exploring the micro and macro worlds, at the center of which is man, as a human being. If we combine this with the skin, the real physical armor of our body, which is far from being inert and lazy, and then the brain with all its unimagined potentials that harmonizes our emotional and sensory world with the environment, we get a man, who is so small compared to the Universe (which is by definition the infinite space that surrounds us), and yet so great for us in our world of the microcosm. This invisible, and yet very dynamic, physical-anatomical border of the human microcosm and the outer macrocosm is represented by the mucous membranes of the respiratory and digestive tract. And what about consciousness, the brain, and all those psychic and mental events that intertwine between the outside world and our cerebral gyri.Īll in all, man represents the central point, a human being as the most perfect figure of the Universe known to us so far. The eye, such a small organ with incredible properties that conjures up all the beauty of the world around us. Some might think of the respiratory tract, because through it we breathe in the outside air and get the much-needed oxygen that our body needs for various types of metabolic processes, including the most important one – oxidation, which takes place in it. Some might say that it is the skin, which represents the human protective layer against all the negative physical influences of the external environment. When I became an internist and gastroenterologist, I had no idea that my future specialization in gastroenterology would become an abstract synonym for what had always interested me, and for what I had a hard time finding answers to, and that would be to find out where exactly is that invisible boundary where the inner world of man connects with the environment.
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