Something To Think About

"Be very careful of what you think.  Your thoughts run your life."

It's true.  As much as sometimes we'd like to escape from our thoughts, we can't.  They are inescapable.  They follow us everywhere we go.  They're with us in everything we do - when we wake up in the morning, while we eat, while we write, while we sit and stare out the rain-washed window on a dreary day.  They're even with us while we sleep, formulating themselves into vivid picture images we call dreams.  Our thoughts are the truest representation of ourselves - of who we are.  We can put on a brave face for the rest of the world to see, but our thoughts will always be an endless reminder of how we truly feel and of what we truly desire.

No one else has to know these things.  No one else has to understand.  But that's why they're thoughts - kept in the confidentiality of our own minds.  Sometimes we may choose to express some of these thoughts, subjecting them to the criticisms of others.  Sometimes we drive ourselves insane trying desperately to decode our own thoughts, let alone those of someone else.  It's hard to understand why often times we have trouble understanding our own musings.  After all, they are our own creation - who better to understand something than its creator?  But even when we believe we finally have everything figured out and all of our thoughts have been organized and structured, when all seems to be right in the world and we have no reason to doubt or question even a fraction of a thought, when we believe we may have finally found ourselves - life throws us another curveball.  And once again we are back to where we started - confused and questioning, struggling under the weight of our prospects and conceptions.  So as much as we may try to reign them in, our thoughts will forever run free and rampant, taking our minds and spirits to sometimes the most unimaginable of places.