thinking is bad for you

Razors pain you
Rivers are damp
Acid stain you
and drugs cause cramp
Guns aren’t lawful
Nooses give
Gas smells awful
You might as well live.

- Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)

it's rather amusing how the education system works against us at times.. we are encouraged to make quick and accurate decisions and berated for being slow workers, yet one of the gretaest emphasis of the current education system is being about to think from different perspectives, considering all the options before making a conclusion - case in point: the Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis structure for answering questions! well, i guess if your mind works very quickly, you might be able to put off deliberation and come to a conclusion based on the various points of argument that you have.. unfortunately, not everyone is equipped with such quick processors! (although i often wish i had one..) perhaps we can work at training our brains to come to a conclusion in a fraction of the time it takes me to decide what i want to eat... rather inapt comparison, but for want of a better standard although the Big Mac Index is quite cool, we make do! Burgernomics is rather fascinating though, and since i'm sort of on the subject of food: healthy living ftw.

Sorry if you don't get the links. I'm without a single hint of personality disorder.. which personally, i think is quite sad ):

Listening to the Snow Patrol album now, and i'm quite glad i caught them on Live Earth ;) i think it was one of the better performances i caught... it was worth staying up and turning on the telly to hear Chasing Cars, and end up with a renewed appreciation for the song, no matter how overplayed it got for awhile.

Gone off tangent - i was supposed to blog about why thinking is bad for you. but it's fun to google the phrase "thinking is bad for you" and read various ramblings by similar layman bloggers! and search funny terms to learn new things like how your frontal lobes change as you grow older, and what they do for you.. incidentally, i stumbled upon Dopamine once more - a really fascinating neurohormone since it seems to be the cause of addictions. i need dopamine influxes when i study, because imagine being addicted to studying! you'll get an A for sure.

I guess no one'll never find out exactly why i think that thinking is bad. myself included, especially since i try my "bestest" not to think. actually i should reverse my inclinations and start analysing and thinking in order to improve my studies... just don't think about non-related stuff and thinking will work in my favour. and i've just proved that point that TAS syndrome is bad for you because you tend to see greys instead of black and white. while this is not bad per se, i'd rather have a stand on something and stick to it!

Guess i'm still floating: find me an anchor and if possible, find me one to the skies.