pinky and the brain, one is a genius, the other’s insane.

A second entry in succession, because God's just everywhere. Sorry it's quite long!!!

Before mid-sem I totally felt like I wasn’t in the mood for school yet, but now that’s gone into full swing I’m totally enjoying it. Psych has been great as usual.

For one personality psych tutorial we conducted an in-class experiment, and it was on the introversion/extroversion personalities. Basically all of us were given two drops of lemon juice to swirl around our mouths, and while we salivate we place a piece of cotton wool in our mouths to collect the saliva. Finally, we weigh it. So apparently introverted peopl tend to salivate more, because both the rate of salivation and ex-/in-troversion are related to this part of the brain called ARAS (in short). So right, everyone was going up and reporting like 1g, 2g and occasionally 3g, and suddenly i weighed mine and it was like FOUR grams la.

Apart from it being embarrassing (everyone’s results were gleefully announced. Luckily this wasn’t done in primary school, else I’d probably have been labelled Saliva Girl), it really taught me about how I’ve changed. Cos I totally believe that I’m introverted, like timid and shy, like I was to an extreme extent in primary school. I was always afraid of talking to grown-ups, or actually, just talking in general. But I just truly believe it’s God who made me talk, as trivial as it sounds. it was more than the number of words I spoke but I became braver, less conscious of what people think, all these without which I could never have had the guts to take up captainship in SAJC, or even expeditions.

So, guys, if you have doubts about yourself or your flaws, don't be scared and just surrender it to God!He'll change it 180 degrees..

A while ago, Rachel and I were having just this conversation. Our brains are really fragile. If removed and placed on a table, it could just go SPLAT, whoops, there goes our brain. it can’t stand on it’s own, outside of the skull. Yet, within this cotton-wool strong structure lies everything we are; a slight change could result in a completely different me. So is it really my fault if I’m more susceptible to aggression? Is it really my fault if depression hits me? It’s not fair if God judged me according to all these, because, well, it’s not really me, it’s my brain, and I was made this way!

Our conclusion was, well, these are probably valid excuses, but they’re just that, excuses. Ultimately it’s who you choose to listen to, what you choose to do/say.

So in a nutshell, moral of the story is, sometimes we might be really tempted to think we are who we are because of the way our genes made us, so any defect in personality really isn’t our fault. But as many studies have shown the environment can be a much more stimulating factor in character moulding. Much less God, who won’t be constrained by our genes. If we’ll just allow Him, He could override so much of our flaws.