In our day
to day human lives, we need to be constantly in motion, doing something while
the brain is yet awake and properly operational, it may be working, driving,
sitting, watching TV, etc. The list is endless.
And
this brings into perspective how the normal human body operates. Let’s see,
something like this:
the eyes see
– the ears hear – the heart feels – the mind thinks – the body acts
…or so does
my reasoning portray to my understanding.
So given
such a train of logical flow, all this seems inbred within the human body. Like
an inbuilt IT application, one might expect nature to dictate terms and bodily
operation to be automatic. There should be no thinking twice, the mind should
not dictate what the heart decides, the body should not dictate what the mind
decides…or so it should be.
Is this
really the case?? Well, for the majority the answer would be a definite NO!!
Let’s look
at the “no” in further perspective. Two things stand out for me:
1. The
mind berates the heart
In this
situation, the mind reasons according to its own logic and not what the heart
feels. A person can be faced with such a situation whereby the mind is its own
person. An example: “You are walking on the street and a street-child walks up
to you,’nisaidie na kitu kidogo’
would be the usual statement. In this instance, the person feels a tirade of
resentment, mercy towards the street-child. But his mind tells him otherwise;
‘if I lend this street-child some money, he’ll spend it on glue or some abusive
substance’ is what one reasons. The mind thus betrays the heart’s inclination
towards helping the street-child.
End result?
– One just passes by like as if nothing happened.
2. The
heart berates the body
In this
situation, the heart feels one thing while the body acts according to another
form of motion. An example: “A person while crossing a road sees a car coming
fullspeed towards him on a highway, his first instinct is to run but he
freezes. Incidentally, he gets knocked down.” In such an occurrence, the heart’s
instinct is to tell the body to run via an adrenaline rush, but all the
adrenaline seems to do is to act as a form of super glue on the tarmac, a
deadly thing indeed.
Through both
these forms the human anatomy seems to have some sort of conflict within
itself, not obeying the anatomical law (a theoretical one that has the same
flow as natural law). This indeed is bewildering, and needs to be examined in
closer detail. The only conclusion that can be summed up is that we need to
find a balance between these sorts of conflict, like balancing measuring scales
or a see-saw, in order to achieve the perfect horizontal incline that will
define how long our lives will last, the longer the incline, the longer we
live; a simple mathematical calculation.
