Complexity of our brain or limitation of the language??

Humans sometimes gets stuck with emotions which become inexpressible to his fellow human being. Maybe there are many reasons to it. It is said that humans have nearly 100 billion neurons in our brain that is roughly equal to the number of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy . That’s a huge number which numbs our imaginations to quantify it in terms of number of zeroes after the 1 in 100 billion. That maybe one of the reasons why humans could not express the emotions. Emotions are electrical signals flowing through this neurons  and each neuron is connected to nearly 40,000 other neurons . Looking the number of permutation and combination that can be made with this, its many , infinitely many .

Maybe it is because of  how the wheel of evolution turned.The difference in which the language came into existence, homo sapiens came into existence nearly 200,000 years ago .And when compared to the origin of communication there is a gap , that can also be one of other reason .

But there are also other deliberate reasons; our fellow human might try not to understand each other. Like the gap between arises when one fight with other human, they deliberately try not to understand the other rather make him/her to understand us, because deep down we want to be heard than listen. But there is a key that can bridge this gap of communication or expression of emotion, it is coined as compassion. Compassion is like borrowing our fellow being’s shoes so that we can walk with to understand or have glimpse of how him/her perceive their world. There are also things cannot be translated from one language to other, like the word wabi-sabi . It is a Japanese word meaning ‘the beauty in imperfections ‘but there is no perfect translation in English language.  Maybe in English there is no beauty in imperfection so to express such an emotion we have to borrow word from Japanese. Like that its evident there are many emotions that is missing in one language but found in other. Language might have like that restricted our emotions, but it is not a barrier to understand each other. There is a neuron called Mirror neuron which helps us to understand the emotions of the fellow human beings.

If all of us could understand each other with absolute purity of emotions that comes straight from the human heart , the world would have been beautiful. There won’t be many wars even. But the complexity of human brain such that many things are deliberately ignored , as big as between  two nations to two people like couples , which all can be understand with compassion .  

 

Look and Key

  
One day a boy found a lock . It was just the lock, there was no key to it. He has never seen it before. It was a unique lock. He tried to open it up with different keys of other lock. It didn't open. He became angry and try to break up the lock. It didn't work. So, he went to so many places with that lock to find a key to it. He asked some people about it ,no one has seen it before either. Some said it is not to be opened. Some said may be it should not be opened. But he had a feeling with himself that it can be opened. And he met a key maker in his quest to find the key to that lock. The key maker told him ,it's a very unique lock. And gave him some metal piece and asked him to look into the lock and try to understand how it works. Then try to make a key by yourself to open this lock. He started observing the lock and tried to make different keys out of the metal piece slowly engraving each with different combinations . Eventually he arrived at  different keys which he thought might
 unlock it . But it was not unlocking it. Every attempt made him tempt not to try more, but the ferocity of not giving up made him to persevere to make the next combination of the key. And at last he was left with one metal piece. He made a key out of it. He was afraid  to put the last  key  in that lock. The fear was if it doesn't fit, and so he kept looking at the key . His thoughts wander like a slow breeze in the forest. It touched everything it found on its way like the seeds of doubts, the bark of the strong  failures and the beautiful deceiving flowers of procrastination. But nothing forced him to put the key in the lock.
And finally  he gathered all his strength and put the key in the small lock. And tried to turn it. He was all ears for the small click of sound which opened it.... And harder he turned it...

Humans with Eagle's Point of View

Humans with Eagle's Point of View

 

 

 

                  



                                       Sometimes when the eagles fly so high i wonder what does their really see.  Then when i saw pics of earth from an eagle eye point of view, i could visualize everything they see. The beautiful arrangements of trees , rivers , hills and the geographical features by the Creator , and the human touch of the townships, industries , peoples , everything that a Google Earth can see. If human had the wings then I think they would have enjoyed the beauty of this earth from the eagle's point of view. If he could enjoy it from up there , I am sure , people would not have caused these much havoc to the earth and indirectly to themselves. The effect of climate change would not have been that much. Maybe thats why angles have the wings , so that they can always see what humans does from the sky. If they could see the whole picture , they can understand why humans , societies behave in this particular fashion of living. 

               Seeing things from above always have bigger effect in us. The great visionaries who happen to visit this earth have all this eagle's point of view. That is why they could bring about a change which still stayed even after their departure. I wish the Creator should have given us an eye or a vision of this eagle's point of view. So many things would not have done . The trees would have still stayed there imparting the green color to the forests,rivers could have still be with waters without the droughts, ice caps would have still there without melting . Climate change would have diminished to a small pixel in this whole change of perspective. But i cant say that we don't have this glimpse entirely. The Wright brothers invented  the airplane. And the Eagle's point of view could be easily be seen through this . If we happen to sit in the window seat in an airplane, perhaps this thought might have crossed many minds. But as there is two sides of a coin, airplanes was used for further killing of the earth and the people like the Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The very point of view  with which so much change could have bought , was exploited in a entirely suicidal way. 

          

                Maybe the evolution will bring us closer to the Eagle's Point Of View.... :)

            

   

            

 

From 4G to 2G

The sun was gleaming with its rays. I was standing in my usual bus stop and trying to avoid the sunlight even though it's and irony since i work under the sun usually. My restless mind kept looking at my watch thinking that i will be late . Late is something I don't like to add to my character. And the bus came . I with a little struggle managed to get into the bus . It was a Monday morning and usually it's so crowded on Mondays since everyone will be returning to the office from home with a face as if they are been forced to a place they don't like . I am no exception to that feeling and my face was not too alien to that feeling since I have it on my face too . I was standing in that crowded bus . Suddenly a man rose from his seat next to me , then as if it was like a bullet just shot from a gun a man came and sat in that . I was too slow since by the time that man sat I just made up my mind to sit . He was like a 4G connection in the 2G world wen it comes to getting na seat. Suddenly an absolute silence came from somewhere. The only sound was the roaring of the old engine . And there was only one thought in my head too. And a vision , and rest of the things in m head was blurring in the background.That made me think if I was trying to be 4G too.  My routine was programmed. All I have to do in the morning  was get up when the alarm goes off . Rest of the things is programmed like a robot . And the only minute I think after i wake up is when i am in the bus . Like this at this precise moment when one of my hands is in the rail on the top of bus and another hand on the seat for the support to stand straight in that crowd. This is the moment of truth for my everyday. I always think if this is how I going to be further in my life . I see guys much older than me , with shirts tucked in and nice shoes and a bag on the shoulder. At some point I see myself standing there . With the same expression of unhappiness and fear and insecurities I have now which multiplied several year . Then a lightning of thoughts struck my head. A lightning mixed with feeling of fear , anxiety and all the feelings which spills out the adrenaline in me. It was kind of look back moment for me too. 

We live in a fast moving world. Our smartphone is faster, our transportation is faster, our connections are faster (3G,4G). There is a shift from the thought that , earlier it was ‘ we had 24 hours a day ‘ now it shifted to ‘ we just have 24 hours a day’. The shift was that we have to do so much things with this little time . This little time when this earth takes the effort to rotate on its axis. We have started to enjoy less of our time . And we started to live the next moment , not the moment we have , but the moment we are about to have . A faster connections have made us impatient. This impatience have taken its root in all over characters , from waiting in a queue, waiting for a reply, waiting . Waiting. I wonder if this impatience will consume me more and more . And if I will forget to to be here at this precise moment than to be in the next. I have to slowly convince my head that I only have now. The present and hence its called the PRESENT. Slowly slowly , like I learned to walk when I was a toddler , I have to teach myself consciously. Slowly .. In this 4g world I have to learn to be 2G .

An astrophysical comparison of my problem !!!

             I have a problem . How big is it? I don’t know. Maybe big as I am or maybe big as my house or my place or my country. Let me think bigger it is as big as earth . that’s  a 12,756 km diameter sphere. Yes that’s how big is my problem. But how big is earth?

           

          Jupiter has diameter of 1,42,800 km and it means its roughly 1300 times bigger than earth . So 1300 earth can make a Jupiter. And Sun has a diameter of 1392000 km , wow , that means nearly 1300000 earths make up the Sun.

             When I kept on searching about size of sun I came upon a star named Arcturus. How big is it? It has a diameter of 35.7 million km ie 25.7 times larger than sun. And at that point our Jupiter will be of the size of a pixel. Now pixel is a tiny dot in the screen of PCs or mobile phones. So if Jupiter is just a tiny dot in the screen of our mobile , where is earth . it’s not even visible . And again there is another star names Antares, when we compare sun to it , sun is a pixel. That means roughly 1900 times the radius of sun.

             

              And on 3^rd September , 2003 Hubble telescope began poiting to an area nearly one tenth the size of moon for 4 months. And this what Hubble telescope saw.

Our galaxy is roughly 950,000,000,000,000,000 km in diameter(1,00,000 light years). The picture Hubble Telescope took has 10,000 galaxies. And each galaxy has its own stars and planets. And i don't know how to even compare that since i don't know how many zeroes are there after the digit to measure.

So where is my problem that was as big as my Earth. I don't know. I think i don't have any problem now or maybe my problem is something else now :P.

The Explorer in Me

Yes I remember a bit, while I was in my mother’s womb. It was boring; I could hear different voices and sounds unheard other than the heartbeat I hear. I thought it will be exciting out there. So I thought I wanted to get out or am I really stuck here forever. Some months passed away and I was out. When the first ray of light hit my eyes I realized, “Yes finally I am out, to the world of adventure, fun and excitement”. I was carried by so many people.  I saw new things, heard new sounds. But I couldn't get things I wanted  ,see places I wanted because my limbs not yet started to work as I wish . I understood it takes time to make it work the way I wanted. I thought why not wait, I waited for long to get out now I am out, so why not for some more time. 

    It took time; I had to work hard so that I could get up on my knees. Now I could go to places (within a room, of course). I could explore, I am more than happy. Slowly I could move my legs, now I can move faster than before and to more places. It had different feeling I could not understand it at first. Later I came realize that it is a feeling called freedom, what everyone seeks in this world ultimately. And with the increase in area of my explorations, my thoughts too started to explore more areas of curiosity. It was my age of curiosity. Curiosity towards things, feelings and so on. And I understood we can never live with curiosity. Curiosity is the reason for many things in this world, some turned out to be good, some bad. Like a traveler has curiosity to see places, politicians have curiosity for power, all have curiosity for more money and the list goes on.

            My curiosity was at that time about things and places. I tried to reach wherever I can. And days passed feeding my curiosity. Now I can speak too. Now there is another field of curiosity, my sound. When I am happy and make a sound it is called ‘laugh’ and whenever I laugh all around me laughs seeing my cute laughing face. And when I am sad and make a sound it is called ‘cry’, it makes other tensed thinking why I am making that sound. And they give me everything I want when I cry. And this became a good way to fulfill my desires, to see places and experience new things. And I could hear all the grown up version of me talking. I cannot understand a lot and so do they when I try to communicate in my sound. Slowly I learned their sound. And it has lot of another sounds than mine, it is called ‘language’. I speak the one my parents used. And I started experimenting with it. My tongue took time to adjust with the new language which I was about to learn. But I understood language as a way of expression of thoughts, but when we are closer to someone don’t even need the language to understand the feelings.

        The explorer in me started getting many limitations. My parents started warning me about restrictions I had to explore. And slowly I think I started an inhibition towards exploration. The spark of fun, I had in taking risks and exploring the curiosity it was blown off. And as I grew older and stronger the explorer in me was walking away from me. And I am afraid if that explorer, curiosity in me to know and experience new things in this world   , will walk away far from me...  

understanding

 I remember a guy mentioning in a speech that the present generation is lacking a lot of human interaction . I feel that so true , with the emergence of many social networking is actually making humans less interactive between one another through actual human communication like through a face to face conversation and replaced it with texts . In actual human interaction one can see how a human react to words and actions. In texting it lacks it , even though some of the reactions are conveyed through smileys. But what if instead of just texting someone call him/her and hear the voice or meet them. It does make a difference. But today's world , it easy to send a text . Yes everyone is busy and time is running too.
   I recently read an article that texting by looking down to your phone is actually giving a lot of strain to our neck. But everyone is glued to the phones. It like a window to a world. But we are trying to escape to world from present through that window. We are bored and we try to keep ourself busy. We advertise ourselves , our thoughts, feeling all through this window (just like this article how I advertise my thoughts). But at last , we realise to escape from the prison of our own thoughts we really did not make the jump enough to go over the wall and we are still trapped in the prison. We all try to escape from the now , by trying to find happiness in things and materials. But as we proceed we question ourselves, some just don't question but live by.
   Social networks tries to keep man busy , and all humans want to keep themselves busy. So we try it and we advertise our selves through statuses and profile picture. It's true it's a platform that can be utilised in good way and bad way . But the , good or bad is relative. Apparently we all will be at a place we don't know if we ought to be or not . And confusion creeps in , just like a parasite living on a tree. But the actual irony is that once understood if we are at the wrong place we don't always try to change, because we are afraid of change . Change has unexpected end . Sometimes  humans are scared of unexpected climaxes to decisions we make . Afraid of what others  would think about us, and once we can isolate that fear from us , we are free . Free from lot of cobwebs that binds us to many things we don't want. And life becomes simpler.