Thoughts....

My sister created a blog sometime back (www.inidnan.blogspot.com) and something I read there caught my eye.... She said that her blog was to pen down "mental doodles". I was thinking about it and I realised how apt the comparison of thoughts to doodles was.

A doodle is a type of sketch, an unfocused drawing made while a person's attention is otherwise occupied. Doodles are simple drawings that can have concrete representational meaning or may just be abstract shapes. - this is courtesy wiki.....

Thoughts have a way of occurring to us when we least expect them to.... I am not suggesting that we don't think all the time.... Coz I know that we do... but when your attention is diverted.. or you are engaged in a mentally non challenging task, we can get some of the most surprising, sometimes revolutionary thoughts... (not that I've had any of those recently, but whatever.)

How many of us actually take care to put those down? Even if we have place where we express ourselves, do we take care to note down all of our ideas? Our minds are filled with millions and millions of thoughts at the same time, but we hardly take the effort to separate mental chaff from what is actually good... It is said (I don't know by who or when.. but I read it someplace) that nothing can beat the speed of thought.... I know this is true... It is possible to be thinking of something and in the blink of an eye, or in a fraction of that time, to be aeons away from it.... there have been so many times that i have caught myself thinking of such amazing things just to lose them in a moment of distraction... it can be very frustrating to have this happen... its like remembering a dream you had and want to remember but it keeps slipping away... i wonder why that happens and we cant remember something that we consciously want to remember... seems like our mind likes to work out by doing this. I often realise that what i am thinking about has nothing to do with what i originally started thinking about. How 2 absolutely random thoughts are separated by n degrees of separation. it is quite fun to retrace the mental steps that you have taken in order to arrive at that particular thought.

Funny, how I was thinking about what the next line should be and I lost my train of thought...

Which brings me to one my my fav. Calvin and Hobbes quotes...

"His train of thought is still boarding at the station." (About Moe.)

which brings to mind so many other Calvin quotes...

I'm learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life ... Procrastinating and rationalizing.

Calvin: I'm a genius, but I'm a misunderstood genius.
Hobbes: What's misunderstood about you?
Calvin: Nobody thinks I'm a genius.

"The world isn't fair, Calvin."
"I know Dad, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favour?"

"Why should I have to WORK for everything?! It's like saying I don't deserve it!

Hmm... now I've lost my chain of thought again and am too distracted to go look for it. So till next time, when some inspiration strikes, ciao!

P.S. Tell me what you think about it.