Borders of the mind

My blogger friend Aativas on a visit to Tripura, reflects on the concept of "borders" , which seems to be a prominent topic of discussion , and interest there. Read the wonderful post she has written, here .

"....it is an artificial line that divides people, land, water, sky, trees... emotions and lives. This side of the fence, you are an Indian and that side of fence; you are traitor if you are in Indian. This side, this is the law, other side is the other law though the crops, the food, the landscape is the same. Standing there I wished that all these borders vanish!!...."

One tends to reflect on the inherent existence of borders in our lives, socially, politically, by gender, behaviour and so on.

And then one realises that our right brains and left brains, ( that explain predominance of attitudes of holistic analysis, artistic tendencies, intuition, analytic behaviour, rule obsession, dry reasoning etc over each other), are actually, physically, separated in our brains, by a ridge called Corpus Callosum.

My question and doubt follows .





There are
borders
of countries,
states,
religions,
gender,
economics,
language,
and
believe it or nor ,
even of the mind.



Children
dont have them.

But pathology
demands,
that
their right brain
that urges them to
pick up a lost puppy in the dirt
listens to the
reasons of the
dry analytical left
and bids them
go leave it back
and purify their fingers.

Why must we have a
corpus callosum,
a border
between
the left and right brain,
when
both
could have lived
in
harmony together?

And so,
are borders
installed
in our DNA ?