Why is it the nervous system?

It occurred to me while writing verse the other day that we are calling ourselves nervous. Because we call our system of nerves our ‘nervous system’. Humans should call this system something more calming…like our ‘ease system’.

It’s a simple play on words, I understand. The nervous system is called this because of its makeup. Its made up of nerves. Then nerves jobs are:

• sends messages to our muscles and organs on what to do
• Recieves data from your senses
• Processes said information
• organizes thoughts, emotions, memories, and behavior

So Why Not the Nervous System?

Since our subconscious does what we tell it to do, then calling our nervous system ‘just that’ is telling our nervous system to be that…nervous.

Am I being ‘nitpicky’? Who is to say? Maybe this distinction varies from human to human depending on thier intellect or ignorance, whichever word that could apply.

Am I taking the chance? Nah. Not me.

Again, my faithful readers. Its about awareness. And IF your sub is reading that as ‘I should be nervous because my conscious labeled that as such’, then there is a small problem there. You will be perpetually nervous. But obviously, there’s an easy fix. Call it something other than that. I recommend the ‘ease system’. Humans have no problems calling things other than what they really for only aesthetic reasons alone or just habit. And nobody had the awareness and the industriousness to change a word. Cinder blocks are not made of cinder anymore. Teapots were never made of tea. Baby food was never made of babies. As far as I know, anyways. Jelly beans are candy, not a vegetable. Sooo many more humorous misnomers out there. Including our nervous system. But I don’t think that one is too humorous.

How About this?

And, hey, what if we go the extra mile here and call said system something like ‘the smart system’,. It is that. Or ‘strong system’. Or ‘sexy system’. The ‘Already Blessed‘ system. Wait that sounds familiar….

The list goes on and on….

How is that for awareness and out-of-the-box thinking?

Was there ever really a box?