Lionel Messi might not be medicine, but he can feel like it. Watching Messi with a ball at his feet is a testament to the rest of our possibilities. Maybe we aren't so terrible, because he's one of us. He can make us seem better than we are.
He rewards so many different kinds of attention. Sometimes he is best seen from a distance. If you're far enough away from the action so that the names and numbers have disappeared, Messi will still be easy to spot. That's him, way over there, the man farthest removed from the play.