Are You Limping Through Life

Each of us has a left side brain (logic) and a right side brain (emotion). To be dominated by the left side use of your brain, is to live in a world of physical reality and logic by anywhere from a marginal amount, to a very large degree.

I can personally vouch for this, having lived it, therefore, I feel amply qualified to speak on the matter.

Now you are probably familiar with the fact that people have two hemispheres in the brain. Simplistically, we will say that the left side deals with logic, while the right side deals with emotion. They deal with far more, but for our purposes, that is enough.

You have probably also noticed that people have two eyes, ears, arms, and legs.

To a logical person locked into physical reality through the constant use of one side of their brain, it would seem to be a ridiculous action for someone with two good, fully functional legs, to be hopping around through life on one leg. Or, to be dragging one good leg through life but not using it, all because that person didn't have the good sense to realize they were given two good legs, for a reason.

Well the same can be said about both sides of the brain.

Of course it has been my experience that when one starts talking about the logical approach to life, reason goes out the window.

Logical reasoning can be accomplished by using one side of the brain, but intelligent reasoning can not, because intelligent reasoning takes all aspects of reality into consideration, not just those viewed from one side.

Formulating an intelligent hypothesis requires both sides of your brain, that is why you have two sides. A logical man, or an emotional woman is only half a person because they may be dominantly using only one half of their brain, and of course these people will have a definite and unique slant on life.

How much conflict exists between people caused by opposite viewpoints, based on logic or emotion? Far more than there has to be I think.

Defending the idea that either the left brain logic or right brain emotion is a superior way to deal with life is as silly as trying to build a case for limping through life on one leg, as opposed to using both.

So possibly it might be time to start going to the world gym and start working out that other side that has grown weak from neglect.

Or not.