special abilities

They say that when you loose one sense, your other senses pick up the slack. Blind people hear much better, deaf people see better.

So does that apply to smell? If you loose the ability to smell, are you more aware of your surroundings?

Frankly, not having the sense of smell may not be that bad. Think about it. Public bathrooms aren't nearly as disgusting. Public transportation isn't as uncomfortable. Your children's dirty diapers wouldn't be nearly as annoying. Cottage cheese, rotten milk, your neighbor's dairy farm, the compost pile down the road, all become irrelevant. I could go on.

Scientists say that smell is the sense most closely attached to memory. But loosing that connection isn't that bad. I have probably experienced more bad smells in my life than good ones... But then again I was raised on a farm. Frankly, there are smells I would like to forget. I won't list them for you.

What about loosing Taste? It is true that taste and smell go hand in hand. While I would never give up taste, it may be the solution to our obesity epidemic. If potato chips, and Soda taste the same as cardboard and water, maybe we wouldn't all weigh as much as most third world families. We don't need weight loss drugs, we need drugs that remove the sense of taste... Forfeit taste for weight loss!

Back to my original thought of loosing one sense and enhancing others. Does that apply to other aspects? I mean, I am loosing/have lost hair. When will I have a special ability, or increased awareness?

So far all I have noticed is an increased awareness of Back Hair.