Isn’t it strange how our minds truly work? How every passing second we actually try to figure out why we laughed so hard at that awful joke cracked by a friend? Or why we freaked out during a project presentation? Or why we get sad while thinking about a future scenario, not to mention that scenario being absolutely uncertain? And the strangest part, it all points back to the first question; Isn’t it strange how our minds work?
The moment we step into a newly bought house. The aroma of the freshly varnished furniture’s mixed with clothes you just brought back from the laundry works beautifully as an indicator to signal a new beginning, and a deadly trigger to provoke fear. That is the part that intrigues us. Why are we so afraid of starting something new?
We grow up with certain ideologies. Religious, political and the list goes on. These ideologies sit heavily on our shoulders throughout our lifetime. Every second of our day is determined through those ideologies. The question here is how is it so easy for a certain individual to remember every step they were taught, everything that sculpted them, even when that something is negative? How is that our minds follow those steps forced upon us without second thinking?
All these questions seem so rhetoric. The reason behind that is simple; Our minds are one of the biggest enigmas to have existed. Our minds are puzzles. Piece by piece we built it up, and yet we search for a few other missing pieces every moment we breathe.
The solution and discovery as to why we fear something, why we laugh so hard at idiotic statements, why we sadden down at a completely uncertain situation or why we fall for something easily will forever be the biggest search out there and will end unsuccessfully.
Because we always go back to the same statement; Our minds are one of the biggest enigmas to have existed.
By – Nafia Maliat, X, Blue