Not Thoughtful

The previous ('Thoughtless') article was about ‘that special feeling of thoughtlessness’. But in day-to-day life, we do plenty of things ‘no-so-thoughtfully’, without thinking them through. It might be the smallest action, but we do not acknowledge that we didn’t think it through. Often when suddenly asked about the reasoning behind our particular action, we proceed to justify it afterwards. Just because accepting that we did something without completely thinking it through feels a bit off. Everything has a reason, right? :)

Sometimes we just stick up ‘just because’ or ‘ऐसेही’ or ‘असंच’ in such cases, but that is no acknowledgment of the actual situation.

This is where children differentiate from grown-ups. They openly accept their ‘not-thoughtfulness’. Their innocent minds do not run behind seeking justification for their deeds. Which is so great and fascinating!

I believe children’s minds are significantly less messy and webbed up as grownups. They do not indulge in making stuff complicated. They just do and say as thoughts appear in their mind – one after the other. I believe they can go into the discussed ‘thoughtlessness’ more swiftly. Maybe that’s why they are always so curious, expressive; and also visibly stressed when their mind is cluttered and complicated. Maybe they do not have as many layers in their mind as grown-ups do!

Talking to an innocent child helps you realize what level of simplicity you can and should achieve in your thoughts. All of this makes me wonder. Wow! We really go from having no thoughts, to an innocent mind with ‘some’ sorted out thoughts, which then creates a huge mess in itself; and finally, we venture to achieve that ‘no thoughts’ stage again. A proper circle… or a typical bell graph, one might say?