Welcome to my brain.

It’s a strange place.

One minute I’m thinking about breakfast.

The next, I’m questioning neuroscience.

If you’ve ever wondered what goes on inside my head…

Here’s a perfectly normal day.

Or at least… what’s normal for me.

9:00 AM

Is the alarm actually ringing?

Or is it part of my dream?

Why does it always sound ten times louder when I decide to sleep for “just five more minutes”?

Fine.

I’m awake.

Now comes the important question.

What should I have for breakfast?

Muesli?

Cornflakes?

Who invented cornflakes?

How do they make those tiny flakes?

And if I were living on Mars…

Would breakfast still exist?

Or would someone invent Martian cereal?

Somehow my brain manages to connect Kellogg’s to Mars before I’ve even had my first cup of tea.

10:00 AM

Laptop open.

Work begins.

Or at least it’s supposed to.

Why does a MacBook cost so much?

How did Steve Jobs think differently from everyone else?

Was it intelligence?

Curiosity?

Discipline?

Or did he simply refuse to believe that things had to stay the way they were?

Then I remember…

I have emails to reply to.

11:30 AM

Someone says,

“Let’s schedule a meeting.”

Who decided meetings should always begin on the hour?

Why not 11:17?

Or 2:43?

Who made time so organised?

1:00 PM

Lunch.

Who decided lunch belongs in the afternoon?

Why do we eat three meals a day?

Who made that rule?

And why does food always taste better when someone else cooks it?

2:30 PM

I open one browser tab.

Then another.

Then another.

Twenty minutes later…

I’m reading about octopuses.

I honestly don’t remember what I was searching for.

The internet is a fascinating place.

And a dangerous one.

4:00 PM

Tea.

The best part of the workday.

Why does tea somehow solve problems that coffee never could?

Or maybe it doesn’t.

Maybe it just gives us permission to pause.

5:30 PM

The workday is almost over.

Or is it?

Why does my brain suddenly feel tired after sitting in the same chair all day?

What’s actually tired?

My eyes?

My brain?

My attention?

Or is decision-making more exhausting than I realise?

I wonder which part of my brain has worked the hardest today.

The one solving problems?

The one making decisions?

Or the one quietly overthinking a conversation that happened three days ago?

Do brain cells get tired individually?

Or do they all collectively decide,

“That’s enough for today.”

7:00 PM

If my brain could send me a notification…

What would it say?

Battery Low.

Too many tabs open.

Please restart.

Or maybe…

“Can we stop thinking for five minutes?”

Actually…

Can we?

Science says our brains remain active even while we’re asleep.

So does the brain ever truly switch off?

Or is it simply changing the kind of work it’s doing?

8:30 PM

I look at my bookshelf.

So many books.

So many ideas.

So many things I still don’t know.

Sometimes I wonder…

The more I learn, the more I realise how little I actually know.

Is that how knowledge works?

Does learning make you wiser…

Or simply more aware of your own ignorance?

10:30 PM

I open Instagram.

Just for five minutes.

A few reels later…

Someone is building an AI startup.

Someone has read a hundred books this year.

Someone is travelling the world.

Someone is learning another language.

And suddenly I find myself asking…

Am I doing enough?

Or have I just spent thirty minutes comparing my behind-the-scenes to everyone else’s highlight reel?

Then another thought appears.

How are there so many things in this world that I still don’t know?

Every day I discover a new idea.

A new technology.

A new book.

A new perspective.

It’s exciting.

And overwhelming at the same time.

Maybe the goal isn’t to know everything.

Maybe it’s to never stop being curious.

11:30 PM

The lights are off.

The room is quiet.

And suddenly…

My brain decides this is the perfect time to remember something embarrassing I said in 2017.

Amazing timing.

12:00 AM

Maybe my brain was never designed to be quiet.

Maybe it’s simply curious.

Maybe that’s why one question leads to another.

And another.

And another.

Most of them will never have answers.

Some of them don’t even need answers.

They’re just tiny reminders that there will always be something new to wonder about.

Anyway…

Those were today’s weird thoughts.

I’ll probably have twenty new ones before breakfast tomorrow.

Anindita Rath
@scrambledwriter

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