Walk with me

"Mother says I was a dancer before I could walk / Mm-mm, she says I began to sing long before I could talk."

I started to walk when i was 9 months old. But that, like many of my later enterprises, didn't last long. One day i fell on my butt (i was 10 pounds at birth, probably 20 by then) and i was so angered by it i didn't want to walk again until i was one year and a half or for another 9 months.

About singing, it is true. I would hum a song heard on the radio before i spoke more than a few words. We didn't really have a radio by that time, but like most people in the neighborhood, a speaker hooked by wires on poles to an amplifier downtown. Radiofication, they called it, 

Then, when my grand dad bought a pickup player, when i was about 4 years old i fell in love with a song. I think it was Brazilian by rhythm, happy, catchy, i can still sing it or play, the notes are etched forever in my brain it but never found the real words or identified the title (i know the chorus starts with aya aya, but the other words i remember make no sense to me), no matter how much i searched. It was probably a one summer hit in 1963 or 1964 in South America that somehow made it to the only record label in Romania and was forgotten at the source since. Every time he was pulling the pickup i was asking him to play that disk and every time my song came i would jump for joy, sing along and ask him to play it again. I can still remember the smile on his face every time when that happened.

Nevermind that. The subject was walking. Walking, like speaking in humans is a complete learned behaviour. I don't know if a human person not raised by humans could walk at all. (Not even talking about talking). And because of that, we must use quite some brain power to coordinate all the muscles in order to stay in two, walk and don't lose our balance. Interestingly enough, we don't seem to be able to walk on four or climb trees instinctively either. We lost it in the same time.

I think i just realized why this is so important. Though humans walk in two by imitating their parents, the advantages brought by this helped the the humans spread and prevail over other species. (To the point they occupied the whole planet and master all ecosystems).

Some areas of the brain, responsible with coordinating the moves but also connecting them to our primitive will developed. It was probably because of that extra brain power and will we discovered the gestures, as means of communication. Gestures started to be accompanied by grunts and talking started to appear.

Communicating at will with other members in the group brought even more advantages. And then someday some people when alone could hear themselves talking, like an echo, and started to think.

Talking is more economic than gesticulating. Thinkin is easier than talking (people thing at much more speed than talk). Meditate. Conscience developed. Right now i think conscience happen when our thoughts are fast enough to confirm or confront other thoughts from our immediate memory.

The same as with this blog post. I wanted to say something, i started with an idea, a phrase and it developed into a whole theory. My motivation was. As they can learn how to walk, humans can learn how to dance. And in extreme situations, under pressure, in trance, whatever, they can also learn false moves. Something that may be speculated by more advanced groups.

Targeted people or subjects could become so attached subconsciously to that magic like moment of desire (moment created by skills of ancient witchcraft, when we fall in admiration of somebody, the performer, magician or witch, and we have so many idols on the screens these days) that they start to do that false move subconsciously, especially when very stressed out or very unsatisfied, until they break the ligament of a hip, shoulder, name it. Like it happened to me starting about 16 years ago and more recent (for the part of shoulders).