Beware

In eighth grade, my science teacher started talking about a chemical by saying all it's bad attributes. "It kills _____ people every year. It's toxic if taken in it's purest form. It's all over the earth..." And she went on and on about how horrible the chemical we'd be dealing with would be. Oh, but the chemical she was talking about? Water.

Perception is everything. We need water to survive, but she was able to make it look like our enemy (with a lot more description and facts than I have remembered).

I just want people to know there are two sides to every story. We've been told this numerous times, but after all I've gone through fighting in court, and with a current situation I'm dealing with, now more than ever am I fighting to make people believe that there are multiple truths.

One reason I could never be a lawyer: I cry if the justice that is deserved isn't served. And most of the time it isn't. We always pick on the weak, or the one that has no say. And you know what, when you're in a court room, who are you supposed to believe?

And although there are two sides to every story, sometimes the reason that the story is twisted is due to an emotional response triggered in your body. I was reading an essay in the book "Unholy Ghost: writers on depression" called "Toys in the Attic" by Chase Twichell and he talked about consciousness. He discussed how our bodies react differently on different drugs, and how the different medications and nature change our body's language. In his mind, "self" is fiction and to understand the world, you need to be out of the "self", because the "self" can change the way the world is perceived. On top of that, our bodies create chemical reactions based on our situations as survival instincts that create our dillusions that we sometimes believe.

I must say a lot of the more interesting science articles I've read have dealt with how the human body responds to pain. Religious people who have a picture of Jesus or the virgin Mary in front them when they are in pain have a lesser pain reaction than those who don't believe in it, and look at those pictures. Or even if the religious people look at a picture that's recognizable but not attached to them. Then, just yesterday, I heard the study of how when people said a curse word of their choice while their hands were submerged in freezing cold water, they were able to withstand the pain longer than those saying words that weren't vulgarities. The argument is that the curse words trigger a "fight" response from the fight-or-flight instincts in us, that help those people to deal with the pain better. I read another article a few months ago that explains how our brains actually create it's own marijuana reactions to deal with pain, but of course, without the bad side effects of it.

I just want to point out the incredible strength of the human mind, and body. With that, I'd like to point out, that most of it originates from evolutionary backgrounds, and animal-like instincts that we have that cause our bodies to work in ways that will best help us survive. On discovery.com you can watch videos about the body's response to stress, and starvation and a lot of these things that we do subconsciously as a result to our environment that we're not even aware of.

With this knowledge, I'll let you know that you'll come to times in your life where you will be dealing with unreasonable people. They know what they've seen, and heard, and felt. They can justify what they've done. They believe they are being rational. And there are times when YOU'LL be the one that's irrational and won't recognize it. I would like to give you ways around insanity, ways to prevent insanity, however, sometimes, it's our body's way of protecting itself.

I guess in the end, all that's left to say is beware.