Tales of the Last 35 Years - How the Brain Coped with All These Stories

Turned 35 just a few days back. Time flies when your at this age---birthday now and before i know it, its Christmas...then its my birthday again). I think when the military invented the Internet and when Google came to life, everyone aged faster. Too much information to process, so little gray matter. I think the body tries to cope by making you feel time moves faster just so you can catch up with all the things you have to do, giving you this false sense of elation that you accomplished so much in such a short time (dont be a dumbass, you corporate slave:). Last I checked, a second is still a second. 

Funny how at this age range, we all tend to be forgetful. Me thinks its because the brain has an auto delete function to accommodate more information and more tasks. Too bad, the terabyte brain running a quadcore processor and 4gigs of RAM has yet to be invented so lets face it, most of us mere barbaric mortals run a pentium1-256RAM-1GB brain hence le old gray matter has to delete files every so often (evolution is such a slow process - people in 3009 will probably call us "Homo Internetus Monkey-us Sapiens"  or simply the monkey who knows how to use the Internet---payback to us since we branded our ancestors as apes. I'm having a pretty good vision of how that very popular evolution drawing will look like:)

Back to the auto-delete thing, we tend to be selective as to what we should retain. Work matters? probably 80% gone in a minute (that's why the bosses want you to take notes dumbass---notes are the extension of our office and school brain). The new celeb sex tape scandal---100% retained--but theres a compromise because video eats so much space you have to forego the classic ones in your head. So bye bye Saving Ryan's Private because Im making space for Olongapo student sex scandal or something. If for some reason you have grown an attachment to these decent, emotionally moving movies, then you have to let go of the classic porns like, i dunno know, 69 in Jump Street (an 80's classic starring Jonny Deep:). 

But ofcourse some files are undeletable like your first and current crush, Angelina Jolie/Megan Fox, your wife's name and birthday (never forget), your personal heroes, your folks, God, your gfs/bfs, your buddies from highschool/college/work, good books, entertaining blogs, your hot neighbor, the first time you did the nasty and hence the loss of innocence(?), your sins, the first porn you've watched (the first wang you saw was oh so veiny and the vagine' was an ocean) so on so forth. Its a mixture of good and bad things because humans are both good and bad (though it was never designed that way but somehow there's the human resistance factor). 

If for some reason you suddenly remember something from long ago, its probably because it wasnt completely deleted but was placed in the brain's Thrash Bin, ergo its recoverable. If you cant completely recall it, I guess the brain permanently deleted it from amongst the thrash. How the brain manages to do all these stuff is puzzling. Me thinks the brain has a brain (a mini-me so to speak) to let it do all these stuff.

The contents of the brain were never designed to be downloaded (sorry Matrix fans, not happening). Nor were it designed to be passed on through our gene pool. The genes carry certain physical characteristics but it never passes your brain contents. And for good reason, you dont want your kids to know what you have been doing in all those late night outs with the boys. If that happened, your kids first words when they come out of the womb is not a cry but "dada, your an ass"

Oh, how rude of me, blurting out all these nonesense when I havent even introduced myself. You can call me roach (no relation to freddie). Im an average joe, i mean juan (proud to be Filipino)---perhaps too average----so i represent a pretty good chunk of society. Im happy to be 35 and i look forward to being 36 next year (oh, did I mention that the "Tales of the Last 36 Years" is coming out in 2010:). Obviously, 35 years is a long time to amass a sizeable amount of stories to share. I like telling tales to friends and other people. Like a friend of mine said, its like having coffee with them (in a virtual sense). Ill mostly talk about my experiences (35 years and counting), common stuff that will make you say "oo nga ano?", things that i grew up with, highschool(RTPI, Morong, Rizal) and college (UP Diliman) stuff and whatever comes to my 35 year old mind. 

The first of this series is a celebration of the brain--- the seat of our memory(hence, the foregoing was a bit geeky). Often forgotten, much maligned, we have a lot to thank the brain for (clap, clap). Now that that's out of the way, Ill start sharing my stories in my next blogs.

Till then.