Often we speak of “following your heart”, or the difference between “the mind and the body”. But we are not animals that ought to always do what we feel. Nor are we a duality, a thing within a thing. We are people and we have the choice to make decisions. Yes, we have a choice to make decisions.

However we choose to speak we must always be clear as to why we are doing something. The “old brain” is powerful, however. It’s will is the product of eons of evolution and it is spurred by survival at any cost. Yet, we as humans have come a long way from the days of starvation and hardship, at least we think we have. But that is the “new brain” telling us that.

All the while there are eight billion people on the planet, up from 3 billion in the early sixties, and we continue to procreate. All the while we are led by fear in the guise of gods and greed. Most of us are neither good or bad, divine or evil. We are human beings, hairless apes that love and laugh and want the same for others. And yet…

The old brain commands. The old brain leads us. Even as the new brain reminds us that there is the heart and the mind. And then there is the reality.