Thursday, August 2, 2007

fight or flight

When in a situation of stress, an organism is provoked to fire neutrons rapidly thus speeding bodily functions like breathing, heart rate, etc. Therefore it causes various stress responses. In normal terms, when faced with danger, an animal reacts in one of two ways: face the threat (fight) or avoid the threat (flight).
Psychology explores this phenomenon in a very interesting way. i look at it as one very important facet of a human being’s personality. To me that explains more about someone’s personality than most other science facts. It is, i believe, closely linked to another famous rule of nature: survival of the fittest. The food chain is ruthless. Moral rules are invalid here.

Doesn’t the fight or flight rule look a little weak when faced with the other?

Matters of love, friendship, hunger, jealousy, anger and pain are closely related to these two undeniable and highly logical rules of nature. Man feels the need to kill as much as he feels the need for love. He feels jealousy as strongly as hunger. Because he acts on one and not the other does not make one more important than the other.

The fact is that man has no Plan B. Death is all consuming.
The fiction is that he has a bloody fantastic Plan A.

I guess it’s not strange to ask….. Where is everybody?

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till love do us apart.

“out of the arm of one love
and into the arms of another”

-Charles Bukowski

Bukowski knew exactly what he was talking about when he wrote this.

i dont. but i like to think that i do.

but what it most reminds me of is how much we need to lie to ourselves to tolerate our everyday thoughts. we wake up in denial, walk around in distrust and go to sleep with cynicism. and through all of that, we keep constantly reminding ourselves of how life could be so much worse. and therefore consider our present lives a blessing of sorts. what we never give enough thought to is if its enough.

do you have enough? do you want enough? do you think enough? do you laugh and cry enough? do you praise enough? do you aim high enough? do you demand enough? do you expect enough? do you curse enough? do you love and hate enough?

somebody once reflected that you keep talking about how people disappoint you all the time. and then, how, one day you wake up and realise that you are the disappointment.

the world is preoccupied with trying to be perfect. there is no problem with that. my cynical point is that we don’t need perfection. but don’t we all want what we don’t need ?

U2 once sang…
Through the storm we reach the shore
You give it all but I want more
And Im waiting for you

With or without you
With or without you
I cant live
With or without you

And you give yourself away
And you give yourself away”

and in this constant search for what we cannot have, we realise, on the way somewhere, that we don’t want what we can have. so we reject. reject thoughts, possibilities, people, love and chances. unconsciously, we reject that perfection that we all seek. we walk around believing in the undeniable beauty of this world and of our lives. but the truth is that we lie to ourselves. isn’t truth the beauty? or is it the other way around?

makes me wonder why all the obstacles on the way become more important than the end. obstacles like courage, truth, beauty, circumstance, people and thoughts. if the end is complete happiness, aren’t the obstacles only a means to an end?
yes, but isn’t the journey always more exciting? the chase. the wonder. the dream. the “maybe”.

i sit here and think of many “maybe s” and i know i can never tire of asking,
where have all the poets gone? where are all the day dreams? where are the princes?

where are you?

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