Compulsive Nature

I have a power of noticing what is happening around me. It has happened with me too, which is how I first noticed it. I then wanted to see was it just me, or if it was majority of the people I'm surrounded by.

You wake up in the morning. You check your phone in a hurry to update yourself on all that has happened in the world while you were asleep. You keep the phone down in disappointment and twist and turn in bed and fall asleep again. Now you are late for work, so you rush. You rush to brush your teeth, to make yourself a quick breakfast, to shower, get ready and frantically run out the door to get to work on time.

Now you're at work. You've made it in time, just a few minutes late after being antsy sitting in your car through the morning commuter traffic. You pour yourself a cup of coffee and begin your day. Your day is packed with multitasking which basically means that you're thinking of a lot of things at once, and none of them clearly.

Before you know it it's time to go home and you end up reaching home physically tired but your mind is still jogging. It is still thinking about all the stuff that happened today and all the work that is still to be done at home.

Exhausted, you pull yourself through and get it all done and get to bed but you can't sleep. You're looking at your phone for funny cat videos to lighten up your day and hopefully put you to sleep. You finally fall asleep until the alarm clock goes off and the whole thing starts again.

If someone told you, you had 36,500 days to live like this. What would you tell them?

Our lives are bound by compulsiveness. Take a moment to think about what you're doing before you do it. You'll start to make decisions which wouldn't have made sense when you were stuck in compulsiveness.

Permutation Expirement

Nature is performing an experiment like it has for years, which we call "Survival of the fittest". The same is going on today without the need for survival. We have formed societies where humans do not need to be worried about survival every day of their lives. Instead we have started focusing our lives on bigger and better things. For every being it is different, it is ingrained in their very nature to be different. We are all permutations of a human gene. Nature is performing an experiment as to which permutation works and which doesn't. But this leads us to the obvious question, how do we know what works? Would you define a fulfilling life the same way nature does? Maybe you think you led the best life, but does nature think the same? I feel the first step to answering that question is - think about what you were bounded by in your life. Were you bounded by human created 'procedures', or were you bounded by the limits imposed by nature.

Automatic thoughts

There are two parts of our mind, one is the habitual thinker and the other one is the factual thinker. Ever wondered why it takes so long to come to a conclusive decision? Its because they automatic thinker is driving your actions. The factual thinker has converged on a decision, but your habitual thoughts keep you from acting on them.

The reason why it is so hard to overpower the habitual thinking is because it has inertia. If I've been doing something a certain way for the past 5 years, I'm likely to continue doing it that way until a strong force hits me to change my course.

Our society is overpowered my habitual thinking and as time goes by the reason for why they do things a certain way fades away. There are two ways to get out of this spell. One is to forcefully alter your course and the other is to question why you do what you do.

.. To be continued.