So there was this theme going around with the SG's and hopefuls where we were asked to talk about our favorite part of our body. I know I am late on the band wagon (I always am!) but here it goes!
I thought about it for a moment, about what my favorite part of me is. I thought perhaps that it was my face, because my face is very pretty. A boy in college used to call me 'the girl with good symmetry'. I do indeed have pretty awesome face symmetry. But then I thought, no, my face isn't my favorite part. Then I thought, well, my ass is nice, and my legs are pretty damn stellar. But then I decided that no, neither one of those was my favorite part either. And then it came to me:
My brain.
My brain, for all the ills it has caused me, is my absolute favorite part of me. Despite my bipolar, I still love it. It is my brain that allows me to feel. It is my brain that allows me to love. It is my brain that allows me to be so open minded and creative. It is my brain that allows me to laugh, listen to music, look at art, and read books. It is my brain that facilitates my adoration and appreciation of astronomy and physics. And finally, it is my brain that gives me depth, that makes me who I am. I would be nothing without it. For all the pain I have been through I still love the way my mind works.
And none of the parts of me; my ass and my legs and my face, none of that would be anything if it wasn't for my brain. Our minds complete us. Our minds make us who we are. Our minds are the gateways into our souls.
In this current age we reside in where it seems so many eschew intelligence and depth of thought I will come out and say that I am proud of who I am. I am proud that I 'think too much'. I am proud that I am able to think critically and question.
I am thankful for this grey matter in my skull. It is my favorite part of me. When gravity takes its toll on my body, when my face finally develops laugh lines and crows feet, my mind will still be there. And it will have gotten smarter with every new book I read and every interesting news story I listened to. It will have become more cultured with every new piece of music I am exposed to and every work of art I take in.
I feel like Lisa Simpson in that episode where she thinks she's losing her smarts 'on account of the Simpsons gene'.
So there ya have it, SG. Little girl likes brain.
