We all have a B Button as we call it, or properly, a navel. Most kids ask what it's for and the answer can become rather complicated, but we all have one and they don't do anything but make a tiny statement that says we are human. No one that I have heard of, ever got away without having a navel. Since most of us keep them covered and a only a few move them around surgically: fashion models, who are occupied with appearance only. They, or their handlers consider the B Button perhaps needs to be higher up or lower down: a style photographer's idea of what is needed for a good shot.Tut tut, just like visible rib cages, one must never be seen to be "ugly". We cover up all the other bits on our bodies that are deemed not to be shown and that are widely considered "ugly". Artists are the only folks who like to show what the rest of us don't. We need artists for that kind of work. They keep us aware of our whole selves, good and not so. There are B Buttons that are innies and outies and round-abouties, narrow ones and deep ones and stuffed ones, but basically, they are just there and as usually completely ignored. They serve no purpose. The world today, is more or less plugged in, what with all the small electronics that the entire population seems to have about its person constantly. These little gadgets, hand held or lapped or desk topped, or under or over or up or down or shelved or anywhere one looks, rule much of our lives. They get us up, calm us down, send us places, help us communicate, show, tell, annoy, amuse and help. Or make trouble. The down side is, that if one is "out of range", or batteries are dead, the device breaks or the power goes off, one is up a creek. Sometimes when on a hike, literally. Perhaps some day in the distant future, although futures have a way of being right around the corner, we will need to find a bodily location to insert a device so that all of our cumbersome other devices hand held, pocketed or otherwise, may somehow be coordinated. And since, it is also becoming more and more important that devices of all kinds are tinier, it seems to me, with a little adjustment here and there, the navel might become a useful place on the body to put one. Instead of it being a seldom seen do dad just waiting for a use, the navel could be convenient for a"connection". It's out front in plain view, accessible, empty and only a waist away. Take the brain for instance, it sits up there on the top of our heads mostly never considered a burden inspite of its weight, doing what no computer could ever do, while remaining costless to run, taking no special towers or wires or outlets or buttons or dials or keys to push, and yet its work is essential to our daily lives. And no batteries are needed. Our bodies pay little attention to our brains that go on and on doing their electrical work faithfully, year in and year out, for undue amounts of time that our wonderful electronics, no matter how marvellous they are, can match for length of use, economy and scope, no matter how hard scientists try to invent ones that do. (Now there's a run-on sentence!) It is my contention that with a little belt, band or obi, and whatever else scientists can come up with, the navel might find employment. At last. In the meantime, it sits there patiently, hidden most of the time, with only the odd yoga gazer contemplating it. It's about the only part of us that is seldom considered seriously, but who knows what fame our small human scar, the navel, may earn in the future?
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