One amazingly interesting thing about your brain is that is has the capacity to store all of the information you could ever take in. Every thought, every sound, picture, book, every moment recorded all throughout your life. There is a “catch 22” afoot. While you can store all of that information, the problem, is to recall it. Try finding a randomly chosen book in the Library of Congress without light, power and some sort of catalog system. The information is there, but no one can get to it. But if your thoughts define you, why not give them incredible depth. A thought, as an abstract thing, holds no importance. Like a blank canvass, a stem cell, a brand new puzzle or unworn clothes, each seems to have the potential to become something more, incomplete as it stands. Have you ever read something and noticed that you have a mental voice? When you read do you hear yourself reading? A similar concept, if you don’t follow this introspective tirade, would be realizing that you control every single breath you take until you forget your obligation to breath and your body’s natural rhythm takes control of the situation again. Both strange concepts.
If you are following these jumbled thoughts then the question should now have become: “Why do people forget?” The answer to the aforementioned question is largely unattainable for many reasons; in short, because many people will have their own opinion and settle with a conclusion they themselves have drawn up. Of course, sometimes it helps to jump start a person’s thought process: painful memories, self preservation, and memory overload. All of the aforementioned are viable answers. It does not matter for now. It will be discussed later. Thoughts, ideas, notions and feelings, all come together in a seemingly intangible way to form our reality. Such a strange and foreign concept when examined in any light. It is, however, one of the many things we take for granted on a regular basis.
An idea, it seems, can not be entirely original. Everything you know is based on something you have been shown. After all, most ideas are borrowed. Is that not right? If you doubt this then ask why. Or for that matter how? How are you able to communicate? You can communicate with people if you are indeed reading this. The simple answer is that it was a learned behavior. Someone else had a thought and you based your own upon it. One man could not have developed all of the technology we hold so dear today. It took generations to get a firm grip on the concepts of chemistry, physics, mathematics, astronomy and we’ve barely begun to scratch the surface. Thoughts were passed between generations like burning embers, transferred from an old fire to create a new one. You can’t truly grasp the concept of a thought. It’s like seeing oneself trapped between two mirrors. If you look at just the right angle it appears that the reflected versions of yourself go on without end. That is to say, you can’t really form a thought of a thought. At least you shouldn’t be able to if you can’t define a word with a word. That just makes simple sense or perhaps not.
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