Have you ever thought about how much you think? How easy it is for your brain to spark a connection and travel down twenty lines of association going from one point to another? Every day we have approximately 57,600 seconds - assuming you're getting the average eight hours of sleep a day - where our brains are constantly processing data from our sensory inputs and connecting them with the appropriate concepts in our existing network .
Take that, think about how much time we spend trapped in our own thoughts. Pondering over personal issues, reflecting over social rituals, and wondering what it means to really be you.
We've all done it at some point. Lamented on how difficult it is to be
us. How stressful our family environment is, how difficult our classes are and how frustrating our significant others make us feel. Our constructed worlds are so deep and complex that we can't even fathom being able to properly express all that we are with a single instance. An arm at home, a leg at school, masks that are nothing but parts of a whole.
We think we are so complex, in thoughts and personality. Little worlds of our own. One can only begin to imagine just how complex that makes each and every individual outside of ourselves. How many people do we have on this planet? How many complex
'us'-es must there be?
One one thousand, two one thousand.