Sometimes I find my mind wandering over various eclectic topics and occasionally I am inspired to write some of them down. Today I was thinking about an awful lot. As I am often wont to do (despite being blonde).
I doubt I am
alone in this. It is generally accepted that our mind are permanently teeming
with many diverse and multitudinous thoughts. The comic perception being the
women’s brains are like this:
And men’s brains are like this:
Sexist though this may be there will ultimately be some
truth in it.
Men are from Mars, women are from Venus and, while it can be
said that this analogy means we are still from the same solar system, we do
actually have significant and distinct differences.
It is a scientific fact that women have brains that are
wired to facilitate multi-tasking (leading to the oft heard remarks about men’s
inability to do the same) just as it is a scientific fact that men have brains that
are wired to facilitate spatial awareness (leading to the oft heard lament
regarding women and parallel parking).
Nevertheless thoughts swirl round all neural networks both indeterminably
and interminably. Sometimes creating so much ‘noise’ that it ironically becomes
hard to think.
I have often thought how useful it would be to have a
pensieve just like Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter.
How soothing would that be to be able to remove troublesome
or excessive thoughts from your mind to store them somewhere else for later
reflection.
What thoughts would you store? (Ah, another thing to think
about).
But then this too comes with its own potential issues – if you
could remove troublesome thoughts, would you ever look back on them or would
you ignore them and live in a state of denial. Would being able to separate
strands make it easier to comprehend and process them or easier to
procrastinate and reject them.
