Spaces In-between: #77

"The second great delusion begins with this...," he stated, while pushing up his glasses. Feeling all the blank stares of his students as he often did during these lectures.

"You ever wonder why, or think it was awkward that people, including yourselves, grow sentimental about objects, or desire meaningful connections, or desire to be noticed by certain groups, or seek approval etc...?" he paused to let his slew of questions sink in. "It is very similar to: why our desire to find a purpose stems from wiring in our neurology." Waiting, than he continued "...so is the desire to have relationships. Our brain is a relationship seeking mechanism. It seeks to build relationships with objects, with people, with concepts, with career, with animals and so forth. It than begins its work of entrapment and entanglement for better or for worse. It is a delusion set by our ego or the guardian of our cognative narrative in order to set up certain parameters of reason for actions, thoughts and emotions. Once a person leaves these parameters of reason the danger is that they may enter into realms of Psychopathy."