The Human Rationale

The Viral-Bacterial Partner

Southern Malaysia has been swamped with haze the last few weeks … caused by forest fires in Indonesia. Its produced a strange experience of misty nights … where people walk around in face masks. But the toll on the health situation has been less kind. I got laid up with a bad throat … finished two bottles of cough suppressants … and continue to ache the cough from time to time. However the body shows every sign of fighting back … and regaining its normal condition.

 

It gave me the opportunity to reflect on the human body … and its showcase of the human … particularly in the context of an inflamed viral-bacteria condition. It is the basic foundation of life … and the mix of viral-bacteria … openly suggests sometimes … our thoughts at any one time … even when we are too weak to take on a deliberate will of thought. But they come in parts … broken sometimes … and sometimes making no sense at all.

 

I'm not unfamiliar with the viral-bacteria condition of the human. On previous occasions … when in a deep depression … I used to be able to engage the viral-bacteria … like a magic paintbrush … to paint images in the mind … that helped me overcome … the clamp in my thoughts. The images were so vivid that I had thought … some nature of the human specie … living somewhere in the world … probably undertakes something like this normally … in their daily activities.

 

And then there was the odd bit about … times of long ago … when I had placed my full hopes on the people of a certain nationality … in whom I saw the promise of the world. There's no telling what it is … but I came to learn that my hopes were misplaced … and I had fallen into a deep hole of hopelessness and despair. Thereafter this friend came along … to persuade me that … one man can make the difference … and then to goad me into working to achieve the dream.

 

Such thoughts in us certainly come from a place we seldom visit. On the occasion when our health gets us down … we see in the viral-bacterial nature of our thoughts … the half-formed notions of dreams … ambitions … that was simply discarded during their time … but on another occasion like today's world … we take it up for a new challenge regarding possibilities. Its quite reminiscent of the way the milky way … forms new stars from the old broken ones.

 

But a thought … or force of will … that we have in that way subscribed to … and will not budge to anything in terms of reason … finds its end in the way the viral-bacteria … re-organizes itself in our constitution. Its a fascinating response … that they create … in relation to the individual need … and I am entirely surprised sometimes … that they would respond to my realization on issues. Last night … for instance … I became convinced that any notion of racial groups … or varna … in the world's experience is entirely illusionary.

 

That's a big one for me … especially since I subscribe to the existing physical condition of the world … and am careful not to distort its physical accuracy with thoughts ephemeral. But it left me in this place … with a friend … who was asking me to cross all limits and boundaries … even a peek into what death is. Mind and body … body and mind … and how we cultivate a mirror relation with a friend … to be mind while we are body … and vice-versa. That thought caused my fever to burn higher.

 

But something quite pleasant came out of all of these … and I was quite pleased to awake this morning … to put together … the haze of viral-bacteria of the last two weeks into a coherent picture … of where I'm headed with all these. All of the passions and thoughts … we engage in can be worked into permutations of views … that could possibly be infinite. But it relies on one critical factor … for us to get it right. And that is the rationality of the human mind.

 

I  run into an occasional battle with this notion that I'm wrong about a bunch of things in my figuring … and it comes from a kid of some kind … who is the milk of human kindness … but also entirely naïve. He takes everything literally … adores his mother … and would switch his position in an instant … if she was to do so. Reminds me of my bosses's kid in college … I took out for some ice-cream … who wanted the blue one … the blue one … all the way to the shop. When there … he took the green one. When I asked … he replied … ' No … I wanted the green one.'

 

Well he seems to have given in … at the very center of the building block of life … and that's produced a new window of opportunity for me to view matters … that may not come easily under the context of existing norms. I will no doubt have to apply myself … to define and re-name my experiences. It is however challenging me to go beyond … anything I've looked at before. No doubt someone has great confidence in my ability to stay rationale.

 

There's something else … that's turned out as a pleasant surprise. When I record my observations in these narratives … I find that the whole family of viral-bacteria … jiva … sperm cells … and the nucleuses … seem to take note of my observations and views. They first ensure that I report it accurately … and then take note of what I've come to understand … and the way that I express it in my own understanding. And then they take the same tact … to relate to me.

 

And then we move to new avenues of perceptions and experience … together. They seem to hint that the only limitation they perceive in my learning is my ability to stay rational … with the dictum that … a man can know. Anything other than that … given my tendency to fall into habits … that have been millions of years in the making of man … is frowned upon. I must say its surprised me as well. Rationality sometimes implies a limitation in man … but its certainly viewed favorably by nature … as the sole and only … worth of man.