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Tuesday, 23 October 2007

Make It Stop

Today is my wedding anniversary, in case you didn't realise from my previous blog.

On our wedding night, I recall saying to The Missus - "I wish we could bottle this". I knew what I meant, I knew how up-and-down I could be.

Today has been one of those brilliant sought-after days. I was bulletproof. I was unstoppable. I was quick-as-a-flash witty. I was everything that I was not two weeks ago - everything that I will not be a month from now.

Something on the TV? Bang bang bang - it fires off a million thoughts. Something I see whilst driving the car? Bang bang bang - fires off a million thoughts. There is no escape from this. On days like this, I see the world much more clearly than everybody else does. You get the picture.

The human brain works using things called synapses. Little switches that are triggered by electrical impulses, a lot like the indicators in your car. When you think of something the synapse responsible for it kind of lights up. By doing so, it kind of shines on the synapses next to it - warming them up if you like. This allows you to connect your thoughts.

This is why you can think of sequences of things like "Football" --> "David Beckham" --> "Manchester United" --> ""Alex Ferguson" --> "Scottish" --> "Kilt" --> "Skirt" -> "Short" --> "Legs" --> "female" --> "Long legs" --> "Yummy". And all of that happens in less than a millisecond. This is how memory and recall works.

So, on days like this, it's like every little synapse in my brain is already warmed up and glowing. It only takes the tiniest of things to have them all bursting into life like the lights on the Las Vegas strip. I am as powerless todo anything about it as I am powerless to stop myself blinking. I need to roll with it, go where it takes me.

Moe importantly, I need to use the energy it gives me to deal with the fallout of my shitty mood of two weeks ago. Welcome to my world.

Today, nothing is impossible. Nothing is too difficult. Everything is clear. Next week, it will be different.

As I said to The Missus on our wedding night, I wish I could bottle this. Then I could choose to let it out as and when I chose.

But these days, in this zone, is where I connect with genius. It makes it all worth it. It is the reason, and the price I pay, for being so smart.

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