Bits And Pieces

Every human develops with certain things pre-ordered at the very instant of conception, a DNA blueprint that predetermines all the basics as that unique being goes from womb to full adult. Ethnicity, skin/hair/eye color, left-handed or right, assigned full grown height, tall, short, and, yes, like it or not, gender.

Of course, many things can and do happen in the process, accidents, mis-wiring or chemical imbalances can cause interruptions and shifts in the projected goal. Rips in the blueprint. Regardless, anomalies do not alter that there are original guidelines set in place that define an individual in the instant created. No denying that we come into this world with some things already established.

That’s when it gets complicated.

It has been long determined that the first three months of an infant’s life, how much interaction, speaking to, experiencing all sorts of visual and auditory stimulation, establishes the way the human brain creates neuron paths and therefore launches the development of speech, reasoning, curiosity, common sense and ultimately problem solving. More than just survival skills. One thing builds upon another.

In other words we come into the world ready to go, to learn, to explore, to test and figure things out. We are eager clean slates. Toddlers are preprogramed to ask ‘why?’. But someone has to answer, prompt, encourage and inspire this inclination to natural curiosity or it slowly dissipates.

As we grow and learn, exposed to experiences and the perceptions of others, we are susceptible to influences - both good and bad - bits and pieces are added onto us.

Who do new humans trust? Who do we mimic? Who do we idolize and wish we could be like? What do we do with the many ideologies we are exposed to? Especially now in digital world where millions of bytes of information are flooded into our developing brains via our devises.

Those who, in their early developmental stages, are encouraged to be explorers, inventors, creators and path makers, are also those who ask questions, those who do not take things at face value but rather challenge the conundrums, the unexplainable, the senseless and obviously contradictory.

Here in modernity we are expected to accept whatever is said to us by anyone who has ‘credentials’ or name recognition, if we are not empowered to consider that anyone can be misinformed, biased and therefore wrong, we fail to ask logic based questions that might set us on a path to what is true rather than just perceived. If we are fine-tuned to how untruth often contradicts itself we are better able to sift out and challenge misconception.

Which might save us from falling down the rabbit hole of groupthink.

We are fearfully and wonderfully made. But we are also easily channeled and played especially when we are young and trusting and inexperienced with the devises of falsehood, hidden agendas and emotional manipulation. One of the most devious and harmful perceptions in this modern world is that how we feel is more important than how we think, that what we want to be true is better than what is true.

I recently learned that when a human sperm and egg unite, a flash of light happens. There is a science behind this phenomenon, of course, but then, God created science, and math and astronomy and...

Consider this - the DNA that is created in that flash of light can be traced, years later, to establish ancestral heritage - the history we bring with us to our first breath.

This is fact not emotion.

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