This week I decided to write about our minds. The most powerful organ in our body that controls our every move, every reaction and every thought. Our minds can take us into many places with many variation and different worlds that can alter the way we view the world around us. In a philosophy workshop, the class talked about what made up our minds, who controls our thinking; is it us? Is it someone else? How many people are there? This topic was extremely interesting to me because it has helped me see how every person’s mind was different from the next or previous. If I had to talk about what made up my head, it would make up my mom and my dad. They would both be there in my head influencing my decisions and which path to take. The rest of my mind includes myself, although it would be a bunch of different variations of myself. These little variations of myself influence every decision, every thought and every action I take each day. There are nine characters, one of them being the “what if” part of me. This character is constantly overthinking and second guessing every single decision and action that I make. They are always analyzing and worrying about every little thing and every little detail that for most people would be far beyond them. Many people can easily move forward from moments in time, but I tend to contemplate and ponder what may have occurred due to the “what if” part of me. The “decisions” part of me is number two. This character is always looking for help. Although they are the “decisions” character, they are extremely indecisive. They constantly look for help from the character’s “Mom” and “Dad”, believing that they can help make that decision for me. The third part of me would have to be the “emotions” part of me. This character determines how I feel about a situation. Am I happy, sad, scared, frustrated, and all in between. The fourth character would have to be the “spontaneous” part of me. This character is always thinking of random ideas and thoughts as well as New morals or inventions. The fifth character would have to be the “critic” part of me. This character reflects off of every single action or decision and is extremely opinionated about it. They tend to change their viewpoint quite often, but most definitely take a side. The sixth part of me goes by the name of “optimistic”. This character is always seeing the beauty in everyone. They always give everyone the benefit of the doubt and is always there for everyone. The seventh character is the “fantasy” part of me. This character sees the world as a perfect place, with no flaws whatsoever and disregards all of the negativity that surrounds them. They tend to make up dreams and wondrous experiences for the upcoming future. This character is good friends with “optimistic”. They both look at the world and the people around them as perfect and beautiful disregarding anything that says otherwise. The eighth character is know as the “storyteller” part of me. This is an interesting one in that it influences decisions by me thinking about my future self explaining my experience. In other words, this character explains to people who will listen to my future self and if I feel comfortable with that decision that I’m making. Would I be proud to tell this story in my near future? And last but not least, the ninth character is the “empathetic” part of me. This character is both good and bad in that it helps me understand the emotions of the people around me as well as helping them through their issues, but it also can force me to only feel bad for other people and forget about myself. The mind is a complicated place. There are so many different things that make it up. Everyone has a different way of explaining it or presenting it to the people around them, and that is what makes everyone so different, and that’s what makes the world go round.