What Is The Point of This Big Brains We Have?

We all have a brain. You might have never seen it in your life, but you know it is there or at least you hope it is. Despite having brains, many of us still do not know how to effectively use our minds, myself included. When you are born, you are not told your occupation, passion, partner or even what to study in university. When you are born, you are just a baby, and that is your job. To sleep and to eat. As a baby you are not expected to figure any of those things out. The responsibility is on your parents to educate you, feed you, cloth you and to raise you properly. How comes then as we continue to grow up, we begin to give the brain work that isn’t meant for the brain? We begin to expect the brain to know what to do.

Unfortunately, the brain only knows what it knows which is what it has experienced. You cannot have a dream about a person you have never seen in real life. This is because your brain does not have the power to create new people that you have never seen before. Just like us, the brain is limited in what it can do. Because your brain is limited does not mean that you are also limited in your ability. You might not be able to solve world hunger or cure cancer but there are still a lot of other great things that you can use your mind to do. Unless your purpose in life is to solve world hunger or find a cure for cancer then by all means go for it.

As a human being navigating through life, I often wish I had a manual for this brilliant mind of mine. Many people tell me how incredible my brain is, but the truth is that I am just trying to make sense of the brain that the lord gave me. Like my family, I did not choose what brain or body to get, I just found myself here. I am grateful for my experiences and privileges as they not only inform but also shape my worldview and how my brain works. If indeed my brain works that is.

The truth is that I love my brain and would not want anybody else’s brain or body, I just struggle making sense of life sometimes and maybe that’s where I am going wrong because maybe just maybe I am not supposed to make sense of life but instead live and enjoy it. Does that make any sense? Are we supposed to live more and think less? Is that how we are supposed to use these big brains?

Maybe some scientists somewhere know and understand how our brain works. As a human being, I have to be honest and say that I have never seen a human brain in person so I don’t know how it works, I just have my own and currently I am trying to make sense of my own brain to learn how it works and functions so I can better understand my brain and how it works so that I can get it to work for me. At the end of the day, who knows what brains were meant to be used for. Maybe they are just for filling up in our heads so that we just don’t have empty heads walking around or maybe we are supposed to learn more about our own brain and how it works so that we can make it work for us. Just a thought, if you already figured out how your brain works then congratulations. If you are trying to figure it out, we are right there with you.