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Markendeya Yeddanapudi
🌿 “The Time Before Thinking”
A fable by the forest.
Long before the eye learned to see, and long before the brain began to think, there was only Feeling.
Not the kind of feeling that comes and goes, like joy or sorrow — but the deep, constant pulse that tied every living thing to the great breath of the Earth.
In those days, the Sun would rise, and the grasses would stir. Not with thoughts, not with dreams, but with life — a soft shimmer through their green veins. The trees would stretch without knowing what stretch meant. They didn’t need to know. They simply were.
Down below, the roots whispered through the soil. Messages passed between fungi, from stone to seed, from moss to mushroom. There was no language, but everything was understood.
And the wind… the wind was the great storyteller. It carried the breath of flowers and the salt of the sea, the pollen of the plains, and the sighs of sleeping leaves. With each gust, it told the story of the world, not in words, but in scents and sensations.
Creatures — soft-bodied, shell-bodied, many-legged, or legless — followed the rhythm of this invisible music. The warmth of sunlight meant "go", the scent of blooming meant "eat", and the stillness of night meant "rest". There were no arguments. There were no choices. Only the flow.
Then one day — though days were not yet counted — something new began to grow. Deep inside a simple creature, a spark flickered. Not a flame, not yet, but a Question.
And from that question grew the first Thought.
The creature did not feel the wind the same way anymore. It began to wonder, “Why does the wind blow?” It stared at the tree and thought, “What if I took that fruit instead of waiting for it to fall?”
And so, the Brain was born.
At first, the Brain was small and cautious, content to listen to the ancient rhythms. But soon it grew curious, then restless, and finally hungry — not just for food, but for control.
It named the wind. It measured the sun. It built walls to keep the trees out and tools to cut them down. It taught itself to chase instead of wait, to take instead of feel.
The Earth watched patiently.
Some of her children still remembered — the trees, the whales, the mushrooms, the winds. But many forgot. They walked on two legs and stared into glowing boxes. They replaced the stories of the wind with signals and screens.
And yet…
Every night, when the sun sets and silence returns, something ancient stirs.
A person lies down. Their eyes close. The brain quiets.
And for a moment — just a breath — they feel it again.
The wind.
The pulse.
The story without words.
The time before thinking.
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