{"id":4011,"date":"2015-06-25T00:03:59","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T04:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=4011"},"modified":"2015-06-25T06:41:38","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T10:41:38","slug":"on-the-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=4011","title":{"rendered":"On the edge."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"pikiman\"<\/a>\"leavesoh\"<\/a><\/p>\n

My busy brain.<\/p>\n

I am glad to have a busy brain. No.\u00a0 Ecstatic.\u00a0 There is so much to understand about our existence as human beings. On this planet.\u00a0 In this universe.\u00a0 I used to say\u2026. \u201cIf only I could understand it all.\u201d<\/p>\n

On revisiting that statement, I respond,\u00a0 \u201cWhat the heck was I thinking?\u00a0 NO way.\u00a0 NO how do I want\u00a0 to understand it all.\u201d\u00a0 Holy smokes.\u00a0\u00a0 You want to talk about a busy brain?\u00a0\u00a0 It would be absolutely overwhelming to have an assimilation of the deal.\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019d be like one of those cartoon characters, where there head starts turning round and round, and steam comes out of their ears an nostrils.<\/p>\n

I think it is much better that I get little fleeting glimpses of how I think it works.<\/p>\n

Okay.\u00a0 Here is a little for instance.\u00a0 I think the Human Race is evolving.\u00a0 But at the same time, I think we are rapidly declining.\u00a0 In some ways, we are getting too complicated.\u00a0\u00a0 My example is this.\u00a0 Years ago, from time to time\u2026. we would get \u201cantsy.\u201d\u00a0 You know, that figety, jittery feeling\u2026 like you \u201chad ants in your pants.\u201d\u00a0 Commonly, you would hear someone say\u2026 \u201cI just feel a little antsy.\u201d\u00a0 And that was that.<\/p>\n

Today\u2026 oh today\u2026 we have named it a hundred different things, from \u201cRestless Leg Syndrome\u201d better know as RLS\u2026. to ADHD.\u00a0 Or perhaps it is just your run of the mill Generalized Anxiety Disorder.\u00a0 Nonetheless.\u00a0\u00a0 The game is the same, but the names has changed.<\/p>\n

I know, that scientific advances have allowed us to discover the physical, emotion, mental & psychological causes for these \u201cconditions.\u201d\u00a0 But that is the thing.\u00a0 We have adopted these conditions as a common practice.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When sometimes, the truth of the matter is\u2026 people simple get restless, fidgety, edgy.<\/p>\n

It seems every few weeks, there is brand new poster-child-disorder\u2026. that becomes a societal norm.<\/p>\n

The runaway train.<\/p>\n

Now I\u2019ve got my Wheaties soaked through and soggy.\u00a0 I need to take all of this down a notch.<\/p>\n

My point started out to be this\u2026. there is a LOT to think about in the infinite universe.\u00a0 Like\u2026 how do the Smurfs keep their little boots so white?\u00a0 Or\u2026. Was it live, or was it Memorex?\u00a0 And how about this\u2026 Just because I can\u2019t believe it is NOT butter\u2026 is it truly NOT butter?<\/p>\n

Around ever corner of the day, there is something new to consider.\u00a0 Why pink erasers on the ends of yellow pencils?\u00a0 WHY?<\/p>\n

Life\u2019s mysteries continue to abound.\u00a0 And our brains stay oh so very busy.\u00a0 Trying to figure all of this out.\u00a0 But ….. just maybe….. it isn\u2019t OURS to figure out.\u00a0 As I mentioned\u2026 a least not the whole ball of wax.<\/p>\n

Maybe it is better for us\u2026 to learn one little lesson at a time.\u00a0 And become better people with each little lesson we learn.\u00a0 One little busy-brain-thought at a time.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.\u201d<\/strong><\/em>
\n\u2015 Bertrand Russell<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cYou 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.\u201d<\/strong><\/em>
\n\u2015 Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cSome beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.\u201d<\/strong><\/em>
\n\u2015 Erol Ozan<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cDiscovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.\u201d<\/strong><\/em>
\n\u2015 Albert Szent-Gy\u00f6rgyi<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My busy brain. I am glad to have a busy brain. No.\u00a0 Ecstatic.\u00a0 There is so much to understand about our existence as human beings. On this planet.\u00a0 In this universe.\u00a0 I used to say\u2026. \u201cIf only I could understand it all.\u201d On revisiting that statement, I respond,\u00a0 \u201cWhat the heck was I thinking?\u00a0 NO […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nowyouseeit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4011"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4019,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011\/revisions\/4019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}