thought

Thought – the content of cognition, some say; a force beyond reckoning, I think.
This morning, when I woke up, I thought to myself: “Ah, another beautiful day…” Too bad I woke up to the chirping of the birds outside my window instead of the indignant beeping of the alarm clock: I was late, and the only thing that remained beautiful to me was the rays of the sun tugging away at the edges of my quilt!
How time controls our lives! I have always liked to think that I was in complete control of my life, and then something as abstract as time came into the picture. Abstract… now that’s a thought! No, it really is: doesn’t the adjective “abstract” mean “existing only in the mind”? Now that would lead me to believe that time only existed in our minds. Of course, we have the positions of the sun, longitudes, watches, and old grandfather clocks to keep track of time, but where does time really exist?
The more I think about it, the more convinced I am that time is thought. It’s simple: Past + Present + Future = Time. What we remember in the back of our heads, is what we like to call the past. The conscious state of our minds is what we call the present. Our expectations, anticipations, become what we call the future. It all begins with a thought!

~ by Sayan on September 4, 2008.