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what do you think is this ? |
So
many brilliant thoughts (not necessarily only yours about an amateurs
photo – I mean really
ingenious ones) will never do anything in the world
because they simply get forgotten, procrastinated, lost or thrust
aside.
Would
it have been of any use to them if they had been written down?
To
some, maybe, certainly to a few. On the other hand, there exists such a
lot of useless written stuff nobody ever needs. Ninety-nine percent
of the world population could very well do without the biggest part
of it, but somebody will always find a reason to preserve it. That's
why tons and tons of documents, papers and files still molder in enormous archives where something living visits once in a decade.
The
value of something written is relative (I know, Einstein said that
everything is relative, to precise it, here it's very relative). In fact it's mainly subjective – I don't think I have to line up all the examples - situations where a scrap of paper (that usually would be
thrown away without any closer look) can mean everything to somebody.
The value of thoughts is at least as subjective as this – maybe
even more, the other's don't have full insight into one's
head to state the thought's value. They can only comment, react and
talk. The thoughts are free anyway.
'The
thoughts are free' is also a title of a song that was forbidden during the Third Reich. Isn't that paradox? However, no thought can be
proved. It's different with spoken words and especially written
things. They are counted as secure proofs by the law. For a thought
nobody can be punished.
Still, I once heard a a sentence that too seems to be somehow true: 'What once was thought cannot be taken back' (B.
Brecht).
Who believes in an existing invisible world maybe will agree with the opinion
that there a thought is as real as a spoken word.
And even who does not
believe in this, to whom that's strange maybe'll underline this saying:
'Sow a thought, and you will harvest an action. Sow an action and you
will harvest a habit. Sow a habit and it will change your life.'
This sounds a little dramatic to me, I think there won't be such huge
developements of every single thought.
But as well as every
thought has an origin, a trigger, it too has an effect. A very small one
often and most of the time only subconscious (but don't underestimate
your subconsciousness! You'd be surprised how much your actions and
decisons are influenced by it!)
The
power of thoughts is enormous. No dictator can completely rule and
subjugate people as long as he does not rule their thinking. And
manipulating the thinking of a whole nation (without the exceptions
who could form a resistance group) is a difficult task most dictators
failed upon. There always remained a few 'sane' people whose thoughts
stayed free and helped them to resist and oppose.
A
thought is often compared with the spark that sets a forest on fire.
Small but electrifying and with a lot of energy – as long as it
does not get nipped in the bud, forgotten, procrastinated, lost or
thrust aside
but
pursued, followed, inquired after, kept, preserved and developed.
Cuz
everything starts with a thought.
P.s.
The solution to the little riddle above: I had the brilliant thought to direct my camera to our
rain bassin... now the picture keeps and has even improved the thought of
showing what is visible in the water, under its surface and upon it
as a reflection.
