Introduction

So I was just wondering what You were thinking...and maybe how You were thinking it...

Is it linear? Each thought after the other culminating in self-discovery. Or is it a sort of snowballing? A circular process which builds some ideas while coming back to others. Or does it seem to roll out on a loop? A main motif guiding the progression while others simple push it forward. Or is it more like a play? In which personal philosophies interact like characters in a play, each with their own strengths and weakness: the fates favoring some and thwarting others...

I suppose it's like all of these things, in-between them, and more.

What stimulates certain mental patterns to dominate some times and not others.

Some external impetus is usually to blame, but sometimes not. The mind is a disconcerting creature like that. Ungoverned by natural laws. (A chaotic neutral, really.)

Alone inside our heads, it's hard to get a good gage on the productivity of others' thoughts.

How far along is everyone else with answering the big questions in life:

Why am I here? What should I be doing? When will it be enough? And does anybody really like me?

The only way to get a glimpse is to absorb what others share. Yet, despite the urgent quest for this essential knowledge, we tangle ourselves up in the complexities of what would be the most mundane of life's questions. (“You like me; right?”) And in an attempt to win each other's favor, we dress ourselves up in what we think we'd like to see...A maddening cycle of well-meaning obfuscation increasing the already unsurmountable gap between human minds.

The ever-widening chasm and rising walls each side: it's enough make me want to rip my clothes off and demand “Everybody touch me!”

And so here I do my part and share. (But also that as well.)