Bypassing & Cognitive Blur · Drifting Like Aimless Amoebas
⁘ “If you bypass what you face in life, you invite mental fog. Instead of clarity, cognitive blur and mists of confusion. You turn into a meaningless blob, drifting in the stream of habits pushing and pulling you. Why do we refuse to register and recognize what's right in front of us – as it is? Because it's not compatible with our ideas. So we close our eyes and edit our version — an illusion of what is. The more you bypass, the more your cognitive circuits degrade.”
FYI.
If you bypass what life presents before you,
you invite mental fog, cognitive blur.
Instead of clarity, mists of confusion.
And when that becomes chronic,
you turn into a meaningless, aimless blob,
drifting away in the tides of time.
The stream of habits,
pushing and pulling you,
an organic automaton.
Why is that?
Why do we so doggedly, persistently
refuse to register and recognize
what's right in front of us – as it is?
For the simple reason that
this recognition is consequential
and may not at all be compatible with our ideas,
with our preferred version of reality.
And so we close our eyes, we close our ears.
We edit our version of what is.
Really, it's also just terrible manners.
Ignoring what's placed right before you.
The face of reality overlooked.
Poor reality, bypassed.
Because we are so in love
with our make-believe reality.
We bypass real people,
real statements, real situations.
Whatever that fits our fancy,
that we see – the rest of it we don't.
You can bypass the face of reality,
you can not attend, not recognize,
not respond to what is.
The more you bypass,
the more you refuse to recognize,
the more your cognitive circuits degrade.