Free will is a myth.

We humans tend to think that we get to decide of what we think. While little of this is actually true. Our thinking is unfortunately not in our control.

What thoughts come to our mind is completely beyond our control. It is driven by complex biochemichal mechanisms in our brain of which us humans have made little sense of.

Sadness, happiness, excitedness and all other types of emotions you feel are not decided upon by you. You don’t tell yourself that you’ve had a heartbreak, hence you need to feel sad. It happens automatically, even if you don’t want to be sad, you just can’t control it.

Is it a good thing to not have control over our emotions? Absolutely, we humans have misused whatever power we got. Given the lack of control when it comes to emotions, this actually makes us human and not machine.

Scientists and researchers are trying day in and day out to get this control in our hands. That would mean, you could press a button on your smartphone and get a feeling of your choice. If you don’t want to feel sad, no worries just tap on happiness. Even adjust the level of happiness you want to feel.

When this happens, we will take a giant leap in humanity or say from humanity to machinery. Our lack of control on certain aspects of ourselves keeps us human. If we get to control everything about this as well then we might as well call it just another man made machine.

Trying to accomplish more control over everything including ourselves doesn’t necessarily mean we are moving forward. The lack of control lends the fun to the game called life. Let it be the way it is. Change isn’t always good. Sometimes it’s just not needed.

-ChoubeySahab