I was thinking the other day, how many thoughts do I think in a day? And what exactly would constitute a thought wholly and completely? I think that most of my thoughts would be terribly wonderful run on thoughts that continue on from one thing to the next without any sort of break, or recognition that a thought has even been thought. The thing is however about thinking that no one ever knows what you are thinking. So you could tell yourself that you thought something that you never thought, because there is no one to tell you otherwise. Wouldn’t it be miraculous if you thought that you lived an entirely different reality from the one that you actually live? You would think you thought one way but turns out that is not the way that you think at all. Quite a conundrum really.

My second thought about thoughts was spurred on by the same thought about the same thoughts that I have had over and over again. I realized that most of my time is spent thinking things that I have already thought. There is no new information concerning the thought. There is no new perspective. It is just exactly the same, mulled over in my head once more like a thought that was desperately trying to be put to rest. What would happen, I wondered, if I wrote down every thought that I had. Written down in a book it would no longer need to jump about looking for a spot to lie. It would have its own sweet lines to cling to. Perhaps we think things over and over again because our brain fears that we are going to forget them. It is like it is reciting a phone number that you were told without a piece of paper to write it on. You say it over and over again until you can make the call or write that number down. The memory is only good for however long you are repeating it so perhaps the same thing is going on with our thoughts. So, wouldn’t writing down your thoughts serve the same goal? There they would be in your indestructible vault, assuming that fire did not take down the house hold. Would this lead to much more free space in your mind to think wonderful and new things? If everyone did this I feel that there would be a lot more accomplished in the world. It could be a huge relief off of your brain to remember these facts. It could get a whole new outlook and want to see things in different ways and ponder new possibilities. Or would it on the contrary intend to think the same thoughts it has always been thinking. Your conscious brain would battle this repercussion, scolding the memory for appearing when it was already taken care of nicely written down elsewhere. Or perhaps even still you would be all dried up. The documented thoughts would know that they were not to return for they had been banished to the writing desk and to your poor discovery there is nothing else left. All of the thoughts that were worth noting are gone and you are left an empty vessel with nothing left but the here and now to ponder. Now that is a concept.