My Innermost Thoughts - Part I : Thinking of thoughts

"Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny."
- Anonymous

As I begin to write this, I cannot help but wonder, is there something called "THOUGHTS"?

When people say 'I think' do they really think? If yes, then why are they not sure? They still say 'I think' as though they are still in doubt about what they think. If they are so sure about what they think, then why don’t they just say ‘I know’? I don’t know, may be it’s just me. I have never really understood these vagaries of English. I am not even sure vagaries is the right word. Coming to the point, I think (Oops!) why we use the word is because that is exactly what sets us apart from the rest of the races. ‘We think’ and boy the things we think.

Now, when I started reading the above lines, I found that I have made a fundamental stand. I considered “thinking” and “thoughts” as being the same. I would like to justify my stand. What are thoughts? Aren’t they the things you keep wondering about and continuously judging what is right or wrong? Aren’t they the output of all the things you think through? These thoughts materialize out of all the thinking that has gone behind them. No wonder that people’s thoughts sometimes are above this world, as so much thinking goes behind it. Imagine a world where no one thinks. Everything happens just spontaneously. In that case you won’t be able to imagine as Imagination is a manifestation of our thinking. Clearly the world would be in total chaos. People’s decisions will be solely dependent on that point in time when those decisions are made. You shift that point to somewhere else in the axis and the decision will be different. There will not be any certainty in life. You won’t be able to distinguish between good and bad as these will be just a function of time. And besides , you won’t be able to judge anyway as judging requires you to think. And without that thought process , you are nothing but an abstract entity whose actions are dimensioned by time. To cut to the chase, all I want to say is this:

“We are blessed to be endowed with a brain that actually tells us that , even if you write crap, people will read it if you present it in the right way”.

I hope my thinking paid off!