Shall I compare the brain to say, a garden plant
Which needs attention and the right to grow
Yet if it is not given what it wants
Development will be fragile and too slow.
If the plant ‘s contorted , over-pruned
Then certain parts may never even show
Like a violin with just two strings
Cannot play concertos high and low.
So our brain is cut back by our haunts
If we cannot play and socialise,
Then we will be subjected to taunts
Secateurs prune brains and so prune lives
With connections to the world of others less
We become remote and so friendless
I was reading an article which said if you do not get enough attention as a little child your brain cuts off certain of its connections or they don’t develop and so later you find socializing very hard.Then it becomes self-replicating.. unless one has a great tolerance of pain and some good luck.
