what do you think

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.