CORE-man SENSE- The Rootage

CORE-man SENSE^TM

Many define this as the basic knowledge on has to possess to carry out some basic functions in his environment. To some it is the wisdom required to for a man to live sanely and influential in his environment. It also could be sound practical judgement, but as the saying goes ‘common sense is not so common’. Do you think so?

                Titi was given a puzzle to solve in school, after so much brain-storming she gave it to her senior sister, she read it to herself as loud as she can so it can make sense to her mind. It goes:

A bag of cement weighs fifty kilograms and a pack of cotton weighs the same, which of the two is heavier.

Yeah, I know. You think that’s so simple and you’re smart enough to know the answer without straining a nerve cell. Here it is, I found out that sometimes the answer is right in front of you but as man  is; a complex animal by nature, a far-fetched thinker who sees beyond the box leaving the answer in the same box he came from.

                You think that’s too theoretical try this; a fifty litre keg containing palm-oil and a fifty litre keg containing petrol/gasoline, which of the two is heavier?

Yeah, I guess you’ve just met your match. Talking about the complexity of human nature, there are so many rules or laws governing many phenomenon in our lives and we fail to see them or recognise them because of our familiarity with them. We fail to question the reason why 2 + 2 is 4 and 2 * 2 is 4 yet leaving the same 4 + 4 which is 8 and 4 * 4 equals 16 from the scrutiny of our mental questioning. Sometimes we complicate simple things and make simple things complicated, did you see how complicated that was, I bet you skipped that.

                Writer Henry David Thoreau wrote,   “Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within the range of our intellectual ray.” I have observed a long time ago that the accuracy of man’s judgement is limited to the accuracy of his sight. From the puzzle above, you paint an imaginary picture in your mind to convey the thought, most likely you imagine a boll of cotton and a bag of cement, a fifty litre keg containing palm-oil and a fifty litre keg containing petrol/gasoline. If you haven’t seen anything like that before you may not have a vivid picture of what it is in your mental picture.

                Why don’t you develop a holistic perspective about everything you’re thinking about today and everything would be just fine.