My busy brain.

I am glad to have a busy brain. No.  Ecstatic.  There is so much to understand about our existence as human beings. On this planet.  In this universe.  I used to say…. “If only I could understand it all.”

On revisiting that statement, I respond,  “What the heck was I thinking?  NO way.  NO how do I want  to understand it all.”  Holy smokes.   You want to talk about a busy brain?   It would be absolutely overwhelming to have an assimilation of the deal.   I’d be like one of those cartoon characters, where there head starts turning round and round, and steam comes out of their ears an nostrils.

I think it is much better that I get little fleeting glimpses of how I think it works.

Okay.  Here is a little for instance.  I think the Human Race is evolving.  But at the same time, I think we are rapidly declining.  In some ways, we are getting too complicated.   My example is this.  Years ago, from time to time…. we would get “antsy.”  You know, that figety, jittery feeling… like you “had ants in your pants.”  Commonly, you would hear someone say… “I just feel a little antsy.”  And that was that.

Today… oh today… we have named it a hundred different things, from “Restless Leg Syndrome” better know as RLS…. to ADHD.  Or perhaps it is just your run of the mill Generalized Anxiety Disorder.  Nonetheless.   The game is the same, but the names has changed.

I know, that scientific advances have allowed us to discover the physical, emotion, mental & psychological causes for these “conditions.”  But that is the thing.  We have adopted these conditions as a common practice.    When sometimes, the truth of the matter is… people simple get restless, fidgety, edgy.

It seems every few weeks, there is brand new poster-child-disorder…. that becomes a societal norm.

The runaway train.

Now I’ve got my Wheaties soaked through and soggy.  I need to take all of this down a notch.

My point started out to be this…. there is a LOT to think about in the infinite universe.  Like… how do the Smurfs keep their little boots so white?  Or…. Was it live, or was it Memorex?  And how about this… Just because I can’t believe it is NOT butter… is it truly NOT butter?

Around ever corner of the day, there is something new to consider.  Why pink erasers on the ends of yellow pencils?  WHY?

Life’s mysteries continue to abound.  And our brains stay oh so very busy.  Trying to figure all of this out.  But ….. just maybe….. it isn’t OURS to figure out.  As I mentioned… a least not the whole ball of wax.

Maybe it is better for us… to learn one little lesson at a time.  And become better people with each little lesson we learn.  One little busy-brain-thought at a time.

“What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.”
― Bertrand Russell

“You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city…you go down new streets, you see houses you never saw before, pass places you didn’t even know were there. Everything changes.”
― Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren

“Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.”
― Erol Ozan

“Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.”
― Albert Szent-Györgyi