Things we do!

Its odd...very odd...i have wanted to blog very badly...but i just could not come up with a post!! I mean usually i'm full of ideas....know-how on how i'd like things to be...but when it comes to blogging i've found myself into a spot of hesitation!! It just feels as if i've got nothing to talk..err...write about!...i do....so what is it? Well, its bout the things we do! How 'bout that?

Let me start by what i mean. I mean, daily we encounter so many things; some repetitive in nature, some new, some strange, some un-wanted, some....well you get the idea, right? So why a blog outta this? I think there's a hidden behaviour pattern in the way we do things that we do. A strange behavioural pattern that is a product of us, of which indirectly we are a product ourselves! I mean, if one says that our actions are a display of ourselves, then are we not a product of our actions!? And if we are, as would seem obvious, then whats a function of what? Are we a function of our behaviour?Or our behaviour a function of us?

Its hard to tell really, isnt it? So what would you do if you found out that there was an event aired on TV--one you could not possibly miss--and at the same time you had to go out, say with your friends(who, by the way, were least interested in that!!)? Just what would you do? Would you call them and tell them the actualities of the situation?Or would you fake a reason?Or would you simply just GO? What would you do? It does not matter what you would, cause whatever you choose to do, you have a acted in a certain way.

So, if you choose to tell them then things as they are, then that means you are honest and would refrain from lying, as you've done over here. No easy way-outs for you, you face things! If you fake a reason that would imply that you know just how important the show is to you, also taking into consideration that your actions might be dis-approved of, so you take the easy way out.However, if you decide to go, then that would mean that acknowledging fully how important it is for you to behave the way your friends (people) expect you to, you decide to give up on your likes and go, even if its a first, still you've taken this decision.

So, now is this a behavioural pattern or just a one-off thing? Well chances are this not a one-off thing! You might have done it before without realising it, or you may do it again, even after swearing to not do it again!! The things we do when we have multiple options, are the things we should watch out for. It is in these decisions we take, however small or "one-off", that we christen ourselves. When we take these decisions, like these, for the first time, we become a function of our beahivour, when we have to take decisions like these again, our behaviour becomes a function of us! We try to re-collect, or if we do re-collect, then we do things exactly in the same manner as we have before when faced with similar conditions, so our behaviour then is a result of how we acted "at that time".

Here then our behaviour depends on our actions then, and so our behaviour is not much different than the previous one, and this is how we establish a behavioural pattern. Our behaviours in most cases from here on start becoming a function of us, that is, we do things the way we expect ourselves to do rather than try to do things differently everytime, ofcourse the behaviour will only be similar or "predictable" only in cases of similar events and not otherwise. When faced with a new thing all together, a new behaviour is potrayed and this time we are function of our behaviour i.e. we behave not by instincts or impulse but by thinking & then acting accordingly. Again when this situation is faced later on, or a similar one chances are we would act more or less in the same way as we had "at that time".

To really try and figure out whether we are a function of our behaviour or our behaviour a function of us, we could say, that first time doings are always without histories and experience and in void of that we become a function of our behaviour, i.e. a product of how we've acted and not acted because of who we are, cause we have not faced this thing before at all. When we have, however, faced the circumstances before and we act exactly like the previous time, then it means that we now have behaved like this because of who we are, and this is how we would behave and here then our behaviour becomes a function of us.

There is, however, one assumption in the whole process of identifying the functions and the constants! It has to be assumed that we are ever-defining, evolving,and learning from our past. Wait or is that what mankind has been all-about? Now, its a different thing if you ask those who've been to war, but otherwise, pretty much!!

Let me know what you think, i hope i've not confused you too much!