Blooming And Wilted Thoughts

Thinking about thoughts

Everyone thinks. But, do we often linger on those thoughts? Where do they come from? What inspired our minds to make them? What even is the definition of 'think'?

According to the Cambridge Dictionary, the word 'think' has two definitions:

1.To believe something or have an opinion on an idea.

2.To consider a person's needs or wishes.

In that sense, I do believe (or think) that everybody thinks. Never have I ever met a single person who did not at least have an opinion on something, anything, or who did not consider other people.

However, I do believe (or think) that some people tend to keep the first type of thought to themselves more than others. Some people, we know what they think of practically everything. Others, we think we may know, but we then realise we do not. We merely thought we knew. We thought their thought on the matter would be this, or that. But we didn't know their thoughts on it.

I also think a thought can be pretty much anything that passes through our heads, through our minds, though that is just my opinion, my thought. In that sense even more than the previously mentioned others, everybody thinks. Constantly even. Is it even possible to stop? Did we just forget how to? Or has it always been this difficult to stop thinking for a mere moment?

Some thoughts make us smile. Others make tears spill. Some make laughter errupt from our throats. Others make us angry. At a person, a situation, a turn of events, society as a whole. Some make us strive to be better. Others make us dig our grave deeper than the Earth's core. Some make us regret the past. Others make us long for the future. Some make us breathe in the present.

And they're all thoughts.

But are our thoughts always the truth? Or should we learn that, sometimes, it's better to just cast them aside? That sometimes they're not worth the trouble?

Do all people drown in their thoughts?