I have been struggling for the last few days with my Chrome search engine. Earlier, it used to open with Google window, and my searches used to fetch very good results. Now it opens with Yahoo, which is not so good. I enquired on the internet as to what happened. I came to know that there is a bug that has set Yahoo as the default search engine on Chrome. I changed the setting to make Google my default search engine, but it got changed again, and slowly, I am getting used to Yahoo. Not so that Google is not there, but Google is not the default. Not so that I do not have the capacity to change it to a more efficient Google, but every time I open Chrome, I am in a hurry, and in such a hurry, I end up searching on the default browser.
Today, we were discussing the reasons why some individuals get stuck within a frame. While contemplating the discussions, I realised that there is no difference between us and the browser. The human brain also has a default network that responds to situations without much analysis. Most of our responses to the situations come from it. Mostly, we are in a hurry and just react to the situations driven by the default network. For example, we often react in our relationships based on images. Our default network has made images of almost all the people around us. We consider some people to be intelligent, while others to be stupid; some to be compassionate, while others to be cruel; some to be helpful, while others to be selfish. That's where our reactions come from. The moment our phone rings and we look at the screen to find out whose call it is, the reaction on our face tells us clearly what image of that person we carry in our mind.
Is there a possibility to open the settings of our mind and reset Google as our default browser? So that we do not go by the past experiences, and examine the person afresh? Do we have time for that? We are always in a hurry to conclude and live life with those conclusions. We fail to realize that whenever we make a decision based on the image of different people we carry in our mind, we are not at all living in the present moment. Our observation about that person in the past is deciding our present moment.
People have drawn such conclusions not only about others, but also about themselves. "I am not good enough"; "I am not intelligent"; or "I know everything"; or "I am lonely"; or "nobody likes me". Once we draw that conclusion about ourselves, we become closed. After a lapse of a certain time period, it becomes almost impossible to examine our default settings. Suppose there is no occasion to examine our settings and reset the default network in the last 40 years of our lives, we will almost forget that we have the capacity to examine and reset the default. That's what happens to most people. Most people become slaves to their own choices of default settings during their childhood. It would be quite irritating if the laptop asks us to select all the settings, everytime we open a Word file. However, it would also be equally stupid to forget that we can change all the default settings. When we remember that while working on a Word document, why do we forget that while using our brain? That looks strange, but it's the harsh reality, and the best part is that the moment we recall this capacity and start using the same, we become much more efficient.
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