Right Brainers

They make me so jealous. They know the solution to a problem immediately and as it arises, and can't explain how they know. Whle I'm busy consulting manuals and looking up databases, they're already on the move solving the problem. And what they do is correct. Maddeningly, I ask 'how did you do that?' Ha! They can never answer, and are just as mystified by the whole process as I am. And that's just the thing. There is no process! To me, it appears to be chaos, a guessing game, a complete lack of logic, where there is no precedent. Where as I, being a classic left-brainer, thrive on rule and precedent. I don't introduce originality into my work. I'm always plowing through the ancient ruts that so many who have gone before me have already plowed. And right brainers seem to have such control over the moment and the future. They know exactly where they'll be and when. I'm constantly whacking my head into something cause I'm looking backwards. Cause backwards is now familiar terrain to me. I've lived it. So I understand it. It's not new and uncreated. Staid, and on the good side, possibly solid in my ways, I stick to the tried and true method of things, not veering too far off the well trodden path. Some of my best relationships with people are with those folks who have the right brained creative orientation toward life. I think this definitely has been, and is, and always shall be, a case of 'opposites attract.' Perhaps because I crave their creativity and appreciate it though I can never do what they do, and perhaps they look to me as providing balance and a little solidity to the chaotic world they enjoy so much. I think one reason I appreciate the humanities and the arts so much is because I will never truly be able to create something original. I will always know the order of the planets in which they proceed from the sun, the speed of light, sound, the acceleration of gravity in newtons and ft.lbs., and the law of cosines and sines and the pythagorean theorem. But what good does any of this do me other than assure me that some things carry on in an ordered, predictable manner? Most importantly, when I encounter such things that don't have any seeming rhyme or reason, how am I to react?

Right Brainers!