Wednesday, April 20, 2011

The thinker's pandora

Mind is in a constant state of evolution. Analyzing facts around us and putting them into a puzzle that seems to get more and more complex as years tick over. A jigsaw puzzle called life. As we think over and over, and overdo it, the thoughts start influencing themselves and then thoughts start creating new thoughts. Over a few cycles of these isolated introspective sessions, we may find ourselves thinking about the beliefs that originated from a thought and that are not really based on any real fact!

This is a dangerous stage to be at.

Because when our own mind becomes the engine for our thoughts, we give ourselves the power to lead our mental highways into any direction. At this point, we ignore the stimuli and facts around us and enter an unrealistic realm of thoughts that can lead us astray from reality. This, in combination with our basic inclination towards life,  past experiences, and our reactions to those experiences, can take us way up into the height of optimism, or low down into guilt trips that affect our mental constitution. Both the states being harmful to us and tend to mislead our perspectives of reality happening around us.

So while introspection is a fair means of knowing our true selves, too much of it may pronounce our slight apprehensions or inclinations and make a major dent in our social evolution. It is a responsibility of an alert mind to stay cautious about when to stop thinking about thoughts and mingle with the reality, get out of that couch and take a walk!