02/07/2026

A brief, introductory piece to explain where it all began, my curiosity into the human brain, psychology, and why we feel and behave the way we do. 

People always go on about how complex and unintelligible the human mind is. Stuffed full with neurons, all chaotically intertwined with one another as if haphazardly finding their way to their destination, the synapse. The place where they send a chemical signal to communicate to a receiving cell instructions for movement, thought, or even feeling. These synapses are firing all the time, in all sorts of directions, and to all corners of the brain in order to direct the chaotic traffic of neuron activity. To the human eye, the brain might appear one big huge mess, but in fact, it’s a perfectly, intricately, and rather beautifully constructed network that we have to thank for all our bodily functions, genius ideas, and surges of euphoria and melancholy. 

Yet, it must go beyond this. Beyond being just a generic rulebook with a list of functions to perform on a daily basis in order to keep us alive and our head screwed on. It has some sort of inner conscience that we a not fully aware of, like a brain within a brain that is ruled by a secret group that neither you nor I are a part of. Why, for example, when we have a positive experience does our brain allow us to remember it with remarkable clarity, yet leave negative ones almost completely indecipherable. Or, take the process of grieving the loss of a person or a relationship. For some the pain might be instant, while for others the loss is buried away in the snow somewhere for a while until eventually the winter passes and the snow melts only to reveal the loss all over again. Pain erupts, panic begins, and people struggle. Could it be self-preservation, perhaps? Just temporarily, until the secret plan falls apart, the winter snow recedes, and the grief erupts, feeling even greater and out of sync with the event itself. 

There are, after all, an infinite number of mysteries and questions surrounding the human brain, and this collection of short essays, discussions, and random dialogues surrounding the behavioural expression of emotions will explore just a mere bundle of these. I hope to provoke thoughts within you, possibly debate within your social groups, or even just coerce your thoughts to meander down a path they have never travelled before.

P.s. I hope this HIGHLY impressive video of a traffic director in Manila, in the Philippines, provides both an effective visual tool for understanding the rapid signalling of the brain’s neuron’s, as well as some entertainment (maybe even a chuckle??). Hand on heart, this video has not been sped up, it is the original speed. So rest assured, this guy will feel his arms tomorrow!