I've been meaning to post about this for quite a while now and its just that it keeps getting postponed and postponed. But I'll finally relent and go ahead and post it.
Many-a-times I do get overwhelmed by the Vastness, by the Capabilities, by the Unknown. It seems so inexplicable, so unreal, so unbelivable. I'm talking about the power of the human mind. Its ability to think, to act, to react, to make-believe, to imagine. The power is unsurpassed, unparalleled, unknown.
Even as I type this post, there are a zillion thoughts going through my mind. And I'm just trying to list them out here as they come. I'm thinking the following in the specific order.
1. How do I compose this statement properly so that it just feels right, feels correct to be read.
2. Should I give numbers to each thought/statement I write.
3. Will it be read by anyone.
4. What will they think, when they read it.
5. Will anyone close to me or anyone from home read it.
6. I wanted to speak to my mom and tell her that I purchased a new laptop, but I wasnt bcoz she was asleep.
7. The laptop keyboard layout is a bit wierd, I'm being forced to search for the keys.
8. Especially not used to the Home and End keys being down and not up.
9. In that sense my office laptop was better and I had adjusted to the keyboard well.
10. I gotto go to the office tomorrow to finish off some pending work.
Okay, why am I posting this, is that its absolutely amazing how the mind links one thought to the next and the one after that and on and on and on....Its like a chain reaction. If you see the thoughts from 1 to 10, you can discern the link.
The thought process started off with my current activity i.e. writing a blog. Then it moved on to the framing of the sentences and the structure and then to who would be reading it and then to whether anyone from home will read it.
The mind then latches on to the keyword home and subconsciously thinks about the fact that I had called up home before writing this post and I was not able to tell my mom about the laptop. Then the thought moves on to the laptop itself because my hands were fumbling with the keys (they still are). The mind then latches on to the fact that the hands are not comfortable on the keyboard of the new laptop. And why it is not comfortable, because of the improper positioning of certain keys.
Which keyboard layout was ideal? And the mind answers that question by thinking about the laptop given by the office which my hands were used to. The mind now picks up the key-word office and then "thinks" about work to be done...blah...blah...blah...
Wow...that took such a long time to type, but the thought process was just 10 seconds, maybe less. And whilst typing as well the mind wandered quite a bit, to my last orkut post about Handel and Hallelujah, about this lady from Orkut who wrote in her reply to my comment that she was unable to post any comments on my post, about this other lady in orkut who had said that she identified herself with one of the posts I'd posted on this blog.
Even now as I type this, my mind is working very very hard to actually pause the thought which the mind was "thinking" so that my hands could type that. And that my mind is saying to me that the temples on the side of my forehead are starting to ache and that I should stop doing this activity of recording my thoughts....STOP! STOP!
But what is this mind and what is me?? I dont know....I absolutely have no clue....
I think I should just fall off to sleep right now....its tooo much of mind-reading for one-time. Atleast try to sleep because...its 05:40 am in the morning and there's still no sign of any sleep.
This is an interesting exercise, will do it again some other time....Adios!!
