Hear the Heart
Even after I decided to put aside thinking over the latest controversy surrounding a young medical student making disparaging comments about a cadaver and about her medical institution, it continued to give me a lot of insights into the human mind. Both, the incident itself and the interaction I had with my classmates on the WhatsApp group. After taking a break from discussion with anyone for more than 24 hours I realized myself how an intense discussion, where there are divided opinions, can bring about mental fatigue. Fair enough that some members of the group intervened to stop the discussion. Yet today the same issue posed another question in my mind. We were debating in a mutually known group that stands on friendship rather than hostility. Things were said to each other matter-of-factly rather than with personal animosity. Yet opposing views made us uncomfortable and exhausted. The magnitude of voices in that discussion was a tiny fraction of the uproar that still con...