"Your body is a wonderland"

Straying away from my Europe mugs, I will now feature mugs from various locations in the United States. When I was younger my Aunt would always take me to cool and interesting places around where we lived. One of my favorite exhibits we saw was the BODIES exhibit in NYC. For those of you who don’t know that it is, it is a compilation of REAL human bodies preserved through the latest technology and put on display for viewers to gain an “intimate” view of the human body. They dissected the cadavers down to muscles, bones and vital organs. It so intriguing to see the body presented in a completely different light. The fact that these organs are presented in front of you rather than in a textbook is fascinating and creepy at the same time. All of the bodies are unclaimed bodies donated to research. Research that is now being viewer for those who are not faint hearted at the idea of seeing a real heart. The museum covers all of the biological systems from nervous to the circulatory and every thing in-between. It really changes your outlook on how you view your own body. The systems of our body are so intricate and complex that you truly to appreciate it until you take an inside look at how it works. They even had samples of organs from those who didn’t take care of their bodies by partaking in smoking and excess eating. Under the real damaged black lungs there was a trash a through away cigarettes. I remember looking in the trash and seeing everyone discarded vices buried and thinking how motivating the human body is. I’ve been back to the exhibit a few other times after that, and still find myself reading all the slides and examining all the parts. I even got to hold a real brain!! The exhibit is not only featured in NYC but have taken home in various other locations in the US and I suggest to anyone to go out and go see the museum, to truly understand how lucky we are to be in control of our bodies. Whenever I drink out of this mug, I remember the beauty of the human body!