Blessing Around

On average the human brain processes 6000 thoughts in a day. Depending on how much time you spend in your head, that number may seem very large or very small. Either way doing something around 6000 times a day is quite a significant, it makes me wonder how much of a workout our brains do daily. This number should surely be a rough estimate, when I'm taking an exam, at times it feels like the tally comes down, because I just can't remember how to apply some formulae.  In the words of Renée Descartes, "cogito ergo sum", (I think therefore I am). The famous mathematician could only find proof existence in that he was able to think. Thoughts are a way in which we process reality. If the sensory organs are hardware, then our thoughts are software. Perception is something that we pay close attention to, if we have negative thoughts towards a subject matter, we tend to drift away from the issue and the reverse is true when the polarity is changed.  I guess that...

With the influx of comic book movies in theatres over the last couple of years, I think we have all become familiar with the concept of a villain. In a lot of productions and epics, there tends to be at least two classes of characters. The protagonists that we love to see succeed, and the antagonists that we love to hate. It's almost formulaic at times the way, heroes and villains are portrayed that one does not even have to try to identify who is playing which role.  What makes a villain, villainous? There's always something that makes us dislikes the despicable. One of the first depictions of a villain, that I remember would probably be Scar from The Lion King. What made Scar the bad guy, was his hand in the death of Mufasa. The villain of the story is the one who brings suffering unto others, whether it's murder, theft, or betrayal. The commonality of it all is their ability to breakout hearts in someway or another.  When one does get to dig deepe...