Whatshot
Through my eyes
Through my eyes
Date: 2019-07-05
A life lesson
"One must face things as they are. The truth, however awful, can never be as bad as one's imagining."
July is here and we are officially midway through the year. Don't you agree that it always seems heavy this time of the year It comes with the season; a bit too cold, a bit too hungry and a bit too lazywaking up late because its dark and not getting my morning beach walk because its just too cold and too dark and frankly I don't feel like it.
Right about this time of the year, it feels like its time for some serious R&R, as much as I want to pat myself on my shoulder and saywell done, you made it, I also feel like, oh please get me out of here.
Am I alone feeling like this or are there human's out there who can relate to my dilemma.
The 20th century nature versus nurture debate prepared us to think of ourselves as shaped by influences beyond our control. But it left some room, at least in the popular imagination, for the possibility that we could overcome our circumstances, or our genes, to become the author of our own destinies.
The challenge posed by neuroscience is a more radical perspective, it describes the brain as a physical system like any other, almost mechanical. They will have us believe that we do not will the brain to operate in any particular way, any more than we command our heart to beat.
The modern-day scientific picture of human behaviour is just neurons firing, causing more neurons to fire, causing our thoughts and deeds, in an unbroken chain that stretches back to our birth and beyond.
It could be argued then that we are therefore completely predictable. If we could understand any individual's brain architecture and chemistry well enough, we could, in theory, predict that individual's response to any given stimulus with 100 % accuracy. That's too much like Neo in the Matrix for me.
Our brains, just like the rest of our body, also need time to refuel and regenerate. I guess what I am trying to convey this week is that while our energies are low and our patience levels are slightly depleted, its perfectly ok to feel a little 'shitty', after all, its all about facing our challenges head on and understanding we are at where we are suppose to be at, at precisely the right moment in time.
Let's own it
And hey, its ok to sleep in once in a while, its healthy for our brains. Have a swell week everyone.