In the middle of the night, my brother, his girlfriend, and I were in the kitchen, preparing dinner. We had just finished cleaning and putting away the last remaining food items in our refrigerator when my brother said, “let’s make a dinner.” He has always been a gourmet cook so I was a bit taken aback, but not to worry because I knew what he was talking about.
After a few minutes of chopping, chopping, chopping, we had a meal for three, and it was delicious.
Now I know what my brother meant, because I made a lot of things like that, so I wasn’t too worried. I also knew that he’d said it to me before, but not how exactly.
And since I wasnt too worried about that, I decided to make a pasta dish. I knew it would be a good one because my brother likes it, but I was worried that I would have a headache or something. Now I know what my brother meant because I have a headache right now, but it will pass.
In a sense, this is a typical post-dinner drink moment. We’re having a good laugh over dinner and I’m suddenly aware of how thirsty I was. My mind doesn’t have time to think about anything other than my next drink, so I’m immediately aware that I’m going to have a headache. I know my brother said something similar, but I was too distracted by my pasta to realize it.
It’s the same thing with the word “headache.” When something is so incredibly important to us that it can’t even be ignored because we’re so aware of it, then we have a headache. That’s why alcohol kills the headache. Drinking too much alcohol or feeling sleepy does the same thing.
No I’m not talking about the time of day you get the headache. I’m referring to the fact that we might be so immersed in the task of trying to solve the puzzle that we forget to think about other things. It’s the same thing with the word puzzle.
For example, when I was working on Bobligen I had to choose the word that meant to me the most. That gave me a headache. I could choose any word from the English language, but the one that meant the most was the one I couldn’t remember. I had to remember that word. My brain was like going through a bunch of alphabet soup, but I had to remember the alphabet.
It also explains why I find myself making similar mental mistakes when I read the news or go on the internet. Because to me, the world is one big puzzle, and I have to figure out where to start and what to do next.
I’ve always been a bit of a puzzle person. I love puzzles and I have many of them as a character in my game. They are something that’s on my mind more than anything else. I’m hoping that the recent news about the Germanwings Flight 4U 9501 will help me to remember the puzzle that I was trying to solve the whole time the plane was on its way to the crash.