I am a brain inside a human named Ed. You could say I am the brains of this outfit, this vehicle, this body, mind (me) and the emotions I inherited. As far as I know, I am the only one inside this human.

I am self-aware. I know what I am thinking. From birth I was programmed, taught, indoctrinated and propagandized.

I learned while young to stay alert, to stay conscious of what I am thinking and what thoughts arise from both my genetic memory and from my past experiences–nature and nurture. Sometimes weird thoughts show up. They appear as if by dark magic. Little bastards.

I know I am the weird results of past human experiences, and I have dealt with my inherited absurdities, faulty logic, irrational reasoning, and inherited propensity to draw nonsensical conclusions that life is a shit show.

As a result of working on myself from the time I became self-aware of my thoughts, life has never been a problem for me. You could say I am a happy brain. You could say that because I have no delusions or illusions about life, me and life get along like we are of one mind. Life does what it does, and I do what I do, and damn be the consequences. I enjoy them all.

There is a part of me (the brain that I am) that is very analytical and useful, and then there is the entertaining personal part of me that I find hilarious. When the personal part of my brain jabbers about its personal problems, I listen, and then with mild empathy, I laugh my ass off, and then I tell it not to worry because everyday is a good day to die.

I figure life this way. I came out of the ground onto a world not of my making and I get to have adventures, challenge, risk, excitement, and I get to learn things, to have experiences.

I consider all things that happen to me or that I screw up or others screw up as blessings, and am thankful for them, no matter what happens or doesn’t happen. How do I do that?

I made the decision to enjoy all that is life, and I did that because I’m not an idiot who has a way life MUST go to be joyful. In other words, I am rational, logical, reasonable and sensible, and I don’t give a damn about what I can’t influence or change. I do my best for the joy of doing my best with whatever appears in front of me.