The mind is truly an unknown and alien being. Today I crave nut butterscotch ice cream and tomorrow I detest it. Yesterday I scoffed at the idea of a 'blog' and here I am in shameful glory waiting to open up my thoughts.
Time passes by so fast just like the silent whizzes you hear in the air. So now I stop to say a few things.
We thrive in an environment of user friendly gadgets, regularly used highly detestable profanities, crazy cliches and loving family and friends. Now imagine all of that gone and think about what remains. Honestly, its just a blank mind. At least mine is. So while we have been so caught up with doing the 'in' things, liking the things that are acceptable and saying the things that mostly never matter, we have lost ourselves to the material world - 'the things'. Do we truly know what our mind wants or better - what our minds need? The existence of - 'Purity of Thought' is questionable.
So does this self questioning mean I've turned over a new leaf? Most likely not. I'm more likely to publish this post and get to streaming 'Glee' online irrespective of the fact that I may or may not really like it than sitting under a tree and discovering myself.
"A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic"
- George Bernard Shaw
The way I look at it, life is one big circle. We go from being toddlers that are fascinated with shiny object to being adults that let our material possessions define who we are. At some point in time we stop and think to ourselves, "Does my 32gb smartphone really make my happy ?", and that makes us want to go back to simpler times. Thus completing the circle. Self questioning is a pretty darn important part of this process, would'nt you agree ?
ReplyDelete"Experience is not what happens to you. It's what you do with what happens to you." - Aldous Huxley