Prof Ken Agu General surgeon UNTH on a discussion with medical students after Appendectomy surgery :
“ I don’t even remember the complications of Appendectomy, because I don’t cause them”
Aura Dey cry
Every man who reads too many books before he has lived goes mad in a specific way. first he is gentle because books are gentle. then he is arrogant because books make him feel superior to the unlettered. then he is desperate because he knows everything and can do nothing. then he is finally dangerous because he takes his first real beating from life and realizes all his knowledge did not protect him and now he must rebuild everything from the ground
Your prefrontal cortex shuts down at 3am. That’s why everything feels brilliant.
The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is your brain’s editor. It filters, critiques, and kills ideas during the day. Between 2-4am, it’s running at maybe 30% capacity because your adenosine levels are through the roof and your cortisol is bottomed out.
So your default mode network takes over. That’s the system responsible for associative thinking, mind-wandering, and connecting distant concepts. Without the prefrontal filter, every connection feels like a revelation. Your brain is generating signal and noise at equal rates, but the part of you that distinguishes between them is asleep.
This is the same neurochemical state that makes drunk people think they’re geniuses. Low prefrontal inhibition + high associative activity = everything feels like a breakthrough.
The move: keep a notes app next to your bed. Capture the ideas in 10 words or fewer. Then go back to sleep. Because your REM cycles between 3-6am are when your brain actually consolidates and pressure-tests those associations.
The people who stay up working on the 3am idea lose the sleep phase that would have told them whether it was actually good.
Write it down. Sleep on it. Literally.
Life has me so cooked I'm reading the Bible again bro. This nigga Thesalonians knows ball ngl - mans is saying niggas should shut the hell up and make bread
For a Christian man there is no escape. Marriage may help to sanctify and direct to its proper object his sexual desires; its grace may help him in the struggle; but the struggle remains. It will not satisfy him—as hunger may be kept off by regular meals. It will offer as many difficulties to the purity proper to that state as it provides easements.
No man, however truly he loved his betrothed and bride as a young man, has lived faithful to her as a wife in mind and body without deliberate conscious exercise of the will, without self-denial. Too few are told that—even those brought up in ‘the Church’. Those outside seem seldom to have heard it.
When the glamour wears off, or merely works a bit thin, they think that they have made a mistake, and that the real soul-mate is still to find. The real soul-mate too often proves to be the next sexually attractive person that comes along. Someone whom they might indeed very profitably have married, if only—. Hence divorce, to provide the ‘if only’.
And of course they are as a rule quite right: they did make a mistake. Only a very wise man at the end of his life could make a sound judgementconcerning whom, amongst the total possible chances, he ought most profitably have married!
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might have found more suitable mates.
But the ‘real soul-mate’ is the one you are actually married to. In this fallen world, we have as our only guides, prudence, wisdom (rare in youth, too late in age), a clean heart, and fidelity of will…
(Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, pp. 51-52)
My wife is angry with me already. I'm sorry babe. She made cerelac for Kavod and told me to give him. As i was giving him, he was forming big boy, and the bowl of rich, nutritious and milky cerelac mistakenly fell into my stomach. ☹️