Thoughts On Thought

This is it. My 2nd last week of uni. Soon to be over and never again. Why does it feel the sun shines, but behind a gloomy mist. Why does it feel as though joy is so limited, and suffering so limitless. As I feel the cool breeze gently swaying the hairs on my skin causing my brain to interact with this fallible human body through a nervous system that is wasting away. Simply to feel… to feel something the emotion has defined but is logically of no sense. it feels cool on my skin, calming on my mind, warm in my heart. It brings the momentary satisfaction of what we do not desire but we simply embrace. I see people walking by. They are silent in their progressing movement towards their own goals, aspirations. The silence seems dull, as if their minds are mindless, their bodies of drones. But do I not look the same, as I sit silently in thought. Do I not look mindless, aimless…lost. It is only when I pause, when I truly look at them walk, I see so much more. Their minds, are thinking. Of what… of hardships…of joys…of restlessness… of peace.. sometimes I wish I could enter the minds of those walking by, I wish I could feel their direction, their path, I would I could understand their life…why they are walking here and now..why so silent…how loud the mind is when the tongue is stagnant. Oh how wonderful it must be to feel another human's soul and mind. But then I realise, it is better not to. Though such insight may feel so empowering, so awing, the burden of their life would weigh me down. I feel most live in hardship, with so much weight clinging to them, they alone are struggling to maintain balance. how could I bear such weight from so many. Would their joys, their happiness raise my strength. I do not think so. So I ask why we live such a life, why do we live with joy so limited and suffering so limitless…

- A Writer, 2013