I Think, Therefore I Am?

In the world we live in, what we know and what we don’t know are like Siamese twins, inseparable, sort of messed up, existing in a state of confusion.

Confusion, confusion.

The Siamese twins, it’s not like they don’t always get along. They don’t always try to understand each other. In fact, the opposite if more often true. To put it simply, the right hand doesn’t try to know what the left hand’s doing – and vice-versa. Confusion reigns, we end up lost; and we crash bang right into something. Thud.

What I’m getting at is that people have to come up with a strategy to navigate the intricate web that is what they know and what they don’t know. And that strategy – yup, you guessed it! – is thinking. Thinking helps us differentiate between the things we know, things we don’t know and also the things we think we know. We have to find a secure anchor. Otherwise, no mistake about it…Thud.

So what are people are supposed to do if they want to avoid a collision (thud!) but still lie in the field, enjoying the clouds drifting by, listening to the sounds of nature, watching the grass grow – in other words, not thinking? Sounds impossible? Not at all. The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on; entering the world of dreams and never coming out, living in dreams for the rest of time.

In dreams you don’t need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don’t exist, so in dreams there are zero possibilities of collision. Even if there are, they don’t hurt. Reality is different. Reality bites.

What I’ve written here is a message to myself. I toss it into the air like a boomerang. It slices through the darkness, and finally comes back to me.

But the boomerang that returns is not the same one I threw.