“Is this deja vu or something new!?
The places I’ve been to are quite a few!
The memory takes so much space!
Then again da special ones always get a place!”
Whenever you go back to the place you were before you would fondly remember how the street or the house or the area was before! The outer aspect may change beyond recognition but the foundation though remains the same!
It is the same with your brain!
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It is like how even though my old school looks now more old and less scary and the benches look and feel very small indeed; the feeling is the same!
The other day we were in my ancestral village in a remote part of Palakkad in a place called Chittur!
The roads have been modified and developed and there were some new buildings but more or less according to my dad many things were the same!
The most important was the the old Banyan tree!
He still remember how elders used to warn the kids that the Banyan tree is haunted and they must never go near it in the night!
That may be scientific but then no one would ever know!
His old house in a small corner of the village is still there albeit now painted and plastered to make it more stable! This time we could not go inside but I remember going inside the last time and dad fondly showed us where they used to eat sleep and use the open toilet in the night! The actual other toilet was outside and a hole in the ground!
Just like the Banyan tree which remains the same the brain also has a central part which is the first to develop and remains more or less the same! Like the Banyan tree it is is the oldest and innermost region of the brain. It’s designed to control the most basic functions of life, including breathing, attention, and motor responses!
This innermost oldest core of the brain which is the chief processing unit is called the Brain stem!
The brain stem begins where the spinal cord enters the skull and forms the medulla which is the area of the brainstem that controls heart rate and breathing!
In many cases the medulla alone is sufficient to maintain life — animals that have the remainder of their brains above the medulla severed are still able to eat, breathe, and even move!
Like an unplanned or a village like above the new structure like the cerebral cortex and cerebellum are formed over the old foundation of brain stem! While the modern brain is for evolution and progress the Old Brain parts are simply Wired for Survival!
So while the whole world around progresses and evolves, the central root or the basic nature remains the same! It is vital, it is your identity and you may change the external appearance as much as you can, but the core does not change! Like Metallica say; But the Memory remains! Fond memories of birthday celebrity Ananth Narayan Mahadevan in his old serials also remain!
Now let the brain stem rest!
Shubh ratri!
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