Sunday, March 6, 2011

The Trouble With Thinking

The trouble with thinking is that we do it too much.  We constantly think about how to handle situations or what we are doing that night or what we are doing that very instant.  We think about good things to say when we want to talk to people and we think about how we look, how we smell, or how we sound.  The trouble with thinking is that is too powerful for us.  And by us I mean humans in general.  Thinking is a powerful tool of creation.  Think of it if you will, as a search engine, like Google.  We type in what we want to find and millions of hits are returned to us, all promising some sort of connection to what we want.  The problem is that it is millions of hits!  How in the world are we supposed to process that much information?!  It's the same thing with thinking.  We start thinking of something and our brain gets going and we are doing good than all of the sudden we crash because we can't think anymore.  Either the ideas that came to us we have no interest in or we simply are overwhelmed or too scared to do anything about it.  Now I'm talking about a conscious thinking.  Sub-conscious thinking is another matter entirely.  It is called dreaming.  It is the ability to think with instinct.  To automatically create and destroy based on our feelings and our deepest, most base desires.  This kind of thinking comes to only a few consciously.  The trouble with thinking is that we overthink.  The reason it only comes to a few in consciousness is that we as humans are too subject to our petty and frail state that the sublime power of creation and destruction would be too much for us to handle.  Think Cold War meets Godzilla times the power of the sun.  It and we would consume ourselves because we haven't had the practice or the know how to deal with true thinking.  We should all try this true thinking sometimes.  Let go and let your mind and heart connect to make the decisions that you want.  The trouble with thinking is that we do it too much.  If this is confusing maybe it's because I am overthinking.  But then again, maybe you are.                                                                                                                     

4 comments:

  1. This is interesting, I like it! At least I think I do. :) No, but I totally agree. I think that people over think a lot. And by people I mean me too. Way to think about thinking!

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  2. You're going to make a great philosophy major one day. "What are thoughts? Why do we have them?"

    Fascinating stuff.

    "we as humans are too subject to our petty and frail state that the sublime power of creation and destruction would be too much for us to handle." Wow.

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  3. Amazing! I definitely agree that we humans do over think a lot. Especially when it comes to school things like math... grrrr... math. But I thought this piece is really well written and very interesting. I think this has great voice and can really tell that you think, thinking, is what we do too much.

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  4. "The trouble with thinking is that we do it too much." great introduction! And how you kind of finished with the whole overthinking thing in one sentence. I really, really liked this!

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