.:. Imagination .:.
What you think, is only what you want it to be.
1 day has 24 hours, that's 1440 minutes, that's 86400 seconds. Let's go with a safe assumption that we sleep 12 hours a day ( a luxury many of us do not have), that leaves with 43200 seconds. Seems alot huh. So what are we up to during this time frame, or rather what is going through our minds?
Have you ever questioned yourself "Is there ever a moment when my mind is not working when I'm awake?". A span of time where our minds is just not functioning, just blank out. I tried during the moment, and tried to think backwards, but really that doesn't seem possible. Even a moment of "blanking out", isn't really emptying your mind of stuff. Things, events, people just seem to find ways to sneak into your brain. You might not be actively thinking bout it, but you actually are.
And...
So in our busy lives, we rush about our work, plunging from one task to another, solving one problem after another, socializing with one friend after another. Naturally our minds then are occupied by the moment, but what about the other times? When we are travelling from place to place, inbetween meetings or just walking up the stairs.
Unknowingly, passively we're thinking of the next task ahead, or for the more busy at heart, the task much further in the day. In a way we're predicting what's going to happen next. It's because we don't know the outcome of the task, what's going to happen, if things are going to happen according to how we want it to be. Be it a short phone call or what, inevitably, we'll always think about it before actually executing it. Isn't that why even though our tasks of the day always seem so countable, sometimes even by 1 hand, but our mind is forever whir-ing, spinning and working at top speed non-stop?
So where do we get this trait from, this universal trait that we all, humans, share. Could it be because from a kid, because of our limited knowledge of the world, when we hear/see of new things, we tend to first imagine what it would be, sort of like a pre-emptive measure. But then when we grow up, we know more things, so instead of "imagining" things to happen, it becomes that we "expect" things to happen this way.
As a kid, we are always imagining things. We want to become adults, to wear their neat, straight ironed shirts and drive to work. Or our innocence leads to wonder when we will get superpowers in our life so that we can go out and "beat" those bad guys.
Teens, having seen more things, get more ambitious, albeit realistically more mature ideas. Like the rock fans being influenced by the loud booming rock bands, or the pretty society-approved models that always strut the advertisements of our tv screens.
Imagination then starts to take a turn, with the removal of the "floaty" aspect of it, as adults rather use their time to expect things. What they expect is how reality can make things happen, like whether their earnings are enough to keep their families smiling for the month. It's still an aspect of imagination, but with a more practical sense in it.
Elders, lastly imagine too, but many a times not of the future, but of the past. They "imagine" the good times they had, hard times that they've braved through, their life story. It's what fills their minds through the days, as they try to find the similarity between the Now and the one they've lived through.
So our minds constantly keeps working. Even when we are asleep. It's always putting thoughts into our minds, passively or actively. Thinking never ends. It's what keeps us alive, know that we are still living, know that we are who we are, because we have thoughts of things we have, things we want, thoughts of our own.
Keep thinking ppl :)
I am so tired now, yet I can't rest at all, because I can't stop thinking about you.
Revealed on [6:47 PM]
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