Attachment, a Solution or Conundrum?

I am in no way an expert in physiology and psychology, as a matter of fact I can distinctly recall why I chose to study maths and “logic”. It was simply because I could follow a maths argument as it was never too far from the fundamental axioms and postulates that underpin it (at-least at the level that I studied). Psychological conjectures on the other hand are always underpinned by metaphors & similarities; as it turns out you have a lot of wiggle room to interpret them and that is something my mind outrightly rejects as a wishful proofs. Physiology, well we don’t understand it well enough to concretely conclude if it can be explained by fundamental truths that we know so far. In both cases we rely heavily on abstraction to explain the phenomenons that we observe and its a necessity when explaining abstract phenomenon like attachments.

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From Reluctance to Solace

Human biology limits what we can remember from our early days. Most people have a fuzzy recollection of what it was to be a 3 year old but still some episodes are as clear as day. For me one such event was my teacher being shocked as I held a pencil in my left hand. I was bamboozled (it didn’t take much effort) as if I had sinned. So even before I could write, my mere preparation to write was met with an act of apprehension. What was to follow was an odyssey that continued to pile up my animosity towards writing.

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