The Brain

The self. It seems to me that really the key to getting it right seems to come back to the self. This is clearly different from the selfish, and yet connected. When we stop to consider it, how much time is spent doing or behaving in a way to try and get the best out of other people? How many times does one think, 'if I do this they will do that?'. The truth is, most of the time we will be disappointed. With every human being having a different ideal of right and wrong, correct and incorrect, kind and unkind, could it be that the brain is actually over-developed? Our power of thought can quite often be our undoing. So many are hours spent worrying, stressing, over-analysing and generally driving ourselves crazy, is this all really necessary and what can we do about it? It's all well and good to keep falling over to be told 'past is past just move on and learn from it', however once you spiral towards the plug hole, it just isn't always that easy.
I personally have spent my lifetime to date on the external. The pattern has been about training the body, decorating it with tattoos and dressing it in the right clothes to portray what I want to say. My lifetime to date has been spent on the great curriculum vitae, perhaps to cover all bases in time for the final interview to meet my maker! Life has come down to a collection of physical, academic and creative accolades in order to prove to myself and show the world the I have had a complete life. Time and time again I have seen my journey as a pie chart, split into income, physical, intellectual and creative. Oh my, seem busy, seem complete, well let me tell you, there is so much missing. It's much easier to build the outside than the 'in' and yet, real strength comes from within.