{"id":3016,"date":"2023-12-11T00:32:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T00:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/?p=3016"},"modified":"2023-12-11T00:36:19","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T00:36:19","slug":"por-que-soy-asi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/en\/2023\/12\/11\/por-que-soy-asi\/","title":{"rendered":"Why am I like this?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Has it ever happened to you that a song pops into your head and you get caught up in a loop, repeating one or two lines again and again, either in your head or out loud? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That happens to me a lot. For example, with a song by Orla Garland that I discovered within the Heartstopper<\/em>soundtrack; I love it! The title is Why am I like this?<\/strong><\/em>, which is exactly the line that\u00b4s repeated nonstop during the chorus \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Have you ever asked yourself that question? I get the impression that many of us do, and unfortunately, quite often in a negative way, as in: \"What\u00b4s wrong with me? Why am I so weird? Why can\u00b4t I be more normal?\"<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ahh, that\u00b4s the trap, believing there\u00b4s such a thing as \"being normal\". <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are the way we are, and there are as many ways of being in this world as inhabitants there are here on Earth. When we take this into account, the question becomes much more interesting: \"Why am I like this? What makes me be exactly the way I am?\"<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the reason why it\u00b4s so interesting is because nobody knows for sure. If we asked an anthropologist, a neuroscientist, a priest and an astrologer about the reasons behind a certain specific behaviour, I\u00b4m sure they would give us completely different answers, each of them based on their own experience and knowledge. Who would be right? We don\u00b4t know. Perhaps each of them would be able to see different pieces of this huge jigsaw puzzle of our personality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u00b4ve already talked in this blog about how our brain loves simplifying, as it makes life easier while saving a lot of energy. One of the ways in which it simplifies is looking for a single explanation for each thing, as if everything in life followed a simple law of cause and effect. But deep down we know it\u00b4s not like that: at any given moment, there are multiple causes and effects influencing each other; that\u00b4s what makes life so complex, so diverse, and most of all, so unpredictable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But then, how can we answer the damn question?<\/p>\n\n\n\n