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Dear Brain

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This is one  written with a dear friend of mine, Master Kwbena Donkor , a fellow writer and a smart young man. I do hope you like it.. Dear Brain, You were right and I'm sorry. In my not so long life my experiences have taught me that the heart is naive. It trusts so easily and gets broken so often. The heart's only job is to pump blood not take life-altering decisions. Love is not a matter of the heart but of the brain. Love is a choice not a feeling. I guess I learnt that too late. Dear Brain, I blame you for all the stupid mistakes I make. Okay, fine, maybe not all and maybe only a little bit. Not all because you do prompt me. Sometimes. But your prompting must be very feeble if I almost always end up following the heart. And I almost always come back crying and hurt, Presenting you with another opportunity to give me that smug smile smile and the cliche 'I told you so'. But Brain, You aren't really that smart, you know. It's just that you are more