Think before you read!

Thinking is such a waste of time when it comes to most important issues in life. The best decisions in life sometimes are the ones about which you think the least. Be it a friend, a lover or a dog, you just know who the right one is. When you go out and feel the fresh air, or feel the sharp, cold raindrops piercing your hands, you don’t want to think about the complex psychological twirling going around inside you. It’s about feeling the small joy, the smile that the moment brings to your face. Does it really matter whether it is spelt as happiness or misspelt as happyness as long as you are happy?

 We have a theory for everything. Life fits into complex models. Our brain is conditioned to behave in a certain way. It does not matter if we all have different heads on your shoulders. As long as you are human, you will necessarily have a complex, be it Oedipus or Electra. Your dreams always indicate an underlying need to succumb to violence. Irrationality will always fetch better results because humans are naturally conditioned to behave better with irrational people as compared to the rational ones who are almost always taken for granted. There are different kinds of smiles; different kinds of fears, there are dimensions for love, and what not.

In essence you are damned to behave in a certain way as long as you are human. The interesting part is, that in the quest to find out what makes us human or behave like humans, we have forgotten that there is not one thing about us that is predictable. Each one of us likes a different flavour of chocolate, a different sound or a different person (mostly).

The funny thing is that you never really know why you do something. You might try and explain your behaviour later, but did you really think about your motivations in a structured manner when you went through all those moments in your life? When was the last time you really evaluated a friend on the parameters of emotional compatibility, or predicted what the person you love may do next based on the theories of evolutionary psychology? There is no reason for why you don’t care about the piles of files that you have on your desk when you sit and talk for hours with someone you feel great affection for.

But then we do need to study behaviour. We do need to know the mystery behind actions, justified and unjustified. We like to predict behaviour because we want to feel that human behaviour is predictable. We want to feel that everything is logical. Maybe it gives us peace to believe that people will be rational, that they will respond in a certain way. Even so, if all these laws are true, if all the models perfectly fit your behaviour, isn’t it a lot more fun to forget about all this, not think about anything and just enjoy the moment for once?