Especially if the person is revered by you — Let us consider you are going on a road trip and there is a Mercedes in front of you. You revere the car and have high expectations of it. But alas, the car emitted black smoke from its exhaust and you were turned off by it. …

The effect it has is different on different people — Imagine you have a firecracker that has a thread that you need to put fire on which will in turn burst the cracker. Putting fire on the thread is analogous to a person experiencing a stimulus. The thread doesn’t know whether it is connected to a hydro bomb or a…

Where does it come from — brain or consciousness? — There have been several instances when people who are declared medically dead have had experiences of sight and hearing. Medical science couldn’t explain it. The number are staggeringly high of such people and one cannot deny the fact that experiences are perceived beyond the purview of the brain. The case of Eben Alexander Dr. Eben…

A philosophy to handle injustice in life — Imagine you are playing the game of snakes and ladders. In each move, you can move one step through six steps ahead. In the above figure, there is a ladder at the 14th square that can take you to the 82nd square. But alas, when you were at the 13th…

Understanding the intricacies of this complex feeling — Attraction by nature is between the opposites. People with diverse genetic backgrounds have an urge to mate so that the resultant offspring has all the variety of qualities that might help him or her lead a more fulfilling life. …

Otherwise, we try to be in the status quo — Let us assume that once you ruled the whole world. If that was the case then you wouldn’t need anyone to fight war and extend your kingdom. You have the whole world with you. …

It depends on the situation and the mental state of the person — If the above picture is presented to you then depending on the type of person you are and your current mental state you would concentrate on the picture on display or the table and chair. If you are in a good mood then the concentration will be on the artwork…

They determine our current behaviours — Ram has been interested in the opposite sex since he was in primary school. But alas, the society didn’t approve of it. This led Ram to suppress his desires. He feared that his infatuation would be meted with aggression from society and he felt incapable of handling it. This suppression…

Not quite an ideal way to deal with the life situation — The human mind is programmed by societal conditioning and genetics to respond in a crude manner to any life situation that comes our way. Aggressive response is meted out with aggression and likewise, jealousy invokes jealousy in return. It is as if all negative emotions thrive on similar negative emotions…