Self Conflict

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.