It was six in the evening and it was already drizzling. Turiya was at the coffee shop listening to-‘One love…..’ and patiently waiting for her boyfriend Pradyumna to arrive. With a sip of cappuccino Turiya glanced at Pradyumna who came late as usual.
‘I am sorry…..sweety…so soorryyyyy….’
‘Get lost…….’
Pradyumna had to tell a whole story (it would have been easy for him to have convinced the Devils advocate hahahaha …!) before he was permitted to sit next to her. Finally, the exhausted hero sat and hugged her , and said… ‘Oh my dear. Why fear. When I am here....’and that very moment Turiya’s emotions changed .She felt the warmth and they started to romance.
It was ten in the night the current went off and Malgudi was already seeing its routine November thunderstorm. Next day, was Malar’s (Pradyumna’s sister) board exams and she has to get her school uniforms from the laundry. She was totally upset, agitated, loosing her confidence as she is yet to give her final revision and tears were rolling down her cheek. Pradyumna sat next to Malar and hugged her to say... ‘Oh my dear. Why fear. When I am here....’.That very moment Malar was able to smile. Her emotions changed and she felt confident.
This is a story you would have seen, experienced and is nothing new about it. But did you realize it was the same action-Pradyumna hugging Turiya and Malar and he used the same words: ‘Oh my dear. Why fear. When I am here....’.The outcome was change of emotion but the feel experienced by Malar and Turiya were different altogether. Though we understand that the relationship Pradyumna shares with Malar and Turya are different: Have you ever felt what makes us to feel what we feel and what changes make us to alter the feel we feel?
The answer is simple: it’s the neural machine-Brain that does the whole jaal. It can discriminate enormous variety of events that happen in the environment .Every event is received as a continuous stream of information by the receptors and is transferred to certain defined zones within the neural machine. These information’s are then transferred into perceptions (some of which are stored in memory for future reference) and then into appropriate behavioral responses. All of this is accomplished by the brain using nerve cells and connections between them. It’s these connections that make us feel what we feel.
Hot glass looks same as cold glass. - Cunino's Law of Burnt Fingers!
© ArunZulu 2007
5 comments:
ahem........what part of brain causes someone to write like this....I donno y after a coupla readings I feel ...u r artice is more spiritual than scientific...This is how I feel ....But how is that?????? :)
Keep up da good work dude......
so it starts..... neurophysiological interpretations of the weird n unsual patterns of human behaviour..... what's next ???? ur smile theory...?? btw, i totally dig that...:)
Nice piece of writing.. as usual!!
Hey good one....'Why fear when I am here'...Thats what Sai Baba says.One look at that...all our unfound fears vanish in thin air.When we become spiritual...we cease to realize that our troubled minds will soon encounter tranquility when we pause and think of these words said by the Almighty and place that unconditional faith in him.Afterall with such faith does one need to have any fear?:)
Why do i FEEL that this whole theory came up when you were late to meet ur girl friend!!:P ....
well now that u hav done so much of research on feelings.. .. i have a question.. at many times, i feel as if i have to get myself into a street fight / hit someone.. hit them so hard till they bleed or their nose is broken or atleast till his/ her blood drips from my ankle.. now the thing is never actually analysed when i used to feel this.. but .. it occurs very random.. so do u know why???
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