A minute with myself

Human evolution has seen more technological advancement than biological advancement. It means our human brain is a lot slower to evolve than our technology. We still have an ancient mechanism and similar evolutionary instincts such as survival and reproduction since the start of humanity. However, civilization has evolved rapidly to where we are today in the world of social media and internet. The ancient software running in our brains has still not seen any major update. When ancient humans lived in a hostile environment full of physical danger such animals, insects and natural calamities, their brains were wired for threat detection and for being hyper vigilant. A slight lapse in concentration could lead to immediate risk of life. Thus, the human brain always prepared itself for the worst outcome because assuming a positive outcome could become fatal. Consequently, humans developed cooperation within tribes and gathered materials for food, shelter and protecting oneself from the hars...

In my teenage, I was always fascinated with what I could acheive; the heights at which I could actually go. However, as I graduated, things slowly started to become real. I remember that after my graduation in 2019, I got my first job at a private firm in Surat which gave me a salary of 10,000 Rs per month. Additionally, if the salary was low, the work wasn't any easy or less. I worked 60 hours per week. On top of that, I didn't enjoy what I was working on. That was one of my first few reality checks of life (the first one obviously being the demise of my father in 2015). I am 28 years old today and all through my young adulthood so far I have had to deal with uncertain times. It is not like I am the only one. But it is certainly during this period that I have realized that a lot of things we hoped for and wished for may not happen or may not happen in the way we want them to. During our childhood and teenage, we are presented with a simulated reality of the world, namely, scho...