“Sometimes I’m confused by what I think is really obvious.

But what I think is really obvious obviously isn’t obvious…”

Michael Stipe

It seems that the biggest troubles come about from what we believe to be true. Lately I have come to the realization that my brain is just not very reliable. It misinterprets things, since the whack to the side of the head it is not only slow at processing things…but the memory isn’t too darn great either so it has limited recall to form really well rounded information.I think another problem is that we fantasize on how things should be and of course real life usually never measures up so we are left disappointed.Now I know that I am not alone with these behaviours and a whack to the side of the head should not be my excuse for thinking I know other people’s motivation for doing things or being paranoid that I am not held in high esteem. I do need to come down from my high horse and just not try to think I know it all for I do think that others have just the same troubles of figuring out the day to day relations with others, the crazy political systems, the even crazier economic system, the ongoing grind of keeping one step ahead of the bills, career choices, what kind of diet is the proper one to follow (high carb, low carb, south beach, 100 mile, Israeli Army diet, Paleolithic Diet, Rastafarian Diet…?) and of course just how do they get the caramel in the caramilk bar?I do notice that I am so much more reliable in my thinking when I am calm, well rested, and not distracted…and I am sure that these are optimal conditions for most people…so this to me is a problem these days…with so many people stressed because they are the by products of the economy, with so many people working so hard just trying to keep all the balls in the air, and with so many people trying to do too many things…driving and texting, driving and talking on their cell are a couple of my big pet peeves…how in the world do we as a whole make the correct decisions, interpretations, behaviours, or even the right turn in the automobile…let alone mark the X beside the right candidate!I think that I really don’t know but what I do know is that Socrates was a very smart man indeed when he said I know that I know nothing and maybe that is the whole point we really don’t know so we should not hold certain truths to be true, we should question and more importantly question ourselves.

“I am not a smart man. particularly, but one day, at long last, I stumbled from the dark woods of my own, and my family’s, and my country’s past, holding in my hands these truths: that love grows from the rich loam of forgiveness; that mongrels make good dogs; that the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.This much, at least, I’ve figured out. I know this much is true.” Wally Lamb