What a wonder is the human brain! It can think linearly and episodically, making marvelous leaps between information and memory to come to novel topics or conclusions—sometimes wrong, sometimes irrelevant, but at times, brilliant. The brain has invented wonders, created beauty, and discovered criminals--in between forgetting friends' birthdays and being unable to forget that one annoying song...
Consider this line of thought: Passion—verve—"a little late for trimming the verge, don’t you think?”—Gandalf—pointy hat—the sorting cap from Hogwarts—Hog’s Head—a medieval roast boar with an apple in its mouth—basting—when’s lunch?—tea time—French vanilla creamer—toast—weddings—white...
Without looking, can you remember what idea I started with? How about the fifth item? It wouldn't be strange for a conversation to canvass these topics—and for one of the interlocutors to have forgotten a thought or two they'd wanted to share as they listened to their fellows. No wonder people have trouble concentrating and remembering and reasoning if our brains won't focus long enough to do a thorough, logical job—and yet we manage to make sense, somehow (to varying extents), and we still manage to function in society and in the workplace, and to do those wonderful things mentioned above.
It’s something to think on.
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