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February 15, 2001
When a baby bird is
When a baby bird is born, the first thing it sees becomes imprinted on its consciousness. Usually this
is the bird's mother, from whom it learns to fly and find food and fend for itself. Sometimes birds imprint
people or other living things. But in anycase, the connection is made, the synapses fuse, and once a baby
bird is imprinted, there's no going back.
I suspect the same thing can happen with people. If circumstances collude with one another, if the weather
and the company and the mental state are right, I think that even adults can imprint new things onto their
lives and minds. And perhaps when these new imprints weld themselves into the fibres of the mind, they set
the stage for all future experience, creating a set of themes and ideas through which all of life is now
filtered.
Oh maybe there's just a timebomb in my mind. I hear it ticking but I don't know why.
Posted by Courtney_Sherwood at February 15, 2001 11:50 PM