Look a non-super-lame post title; I know you're surprised. I'm referring to 30 Rock with the title. Jack was trying to get rid of his cookie jar collection and Kenneth told a story about when he was little and he would imagine putting all of his thoughts into a cookie jar.
So this made me think; would you want to do that? Seal away thoughts I mean. For me the answer would be sometimes. A lot of times I don't want to think about anything especially when I have the mentality that thinking about it would end up with no conclusion. But other times it's important to think about something because the conclusion you arrive at could tell you something about yourself that you might not have known before. Pointless thinking always bothers me. When there isn't an answer to something, sure it's entertaining to think of all the possibilities; but if there's no answer then what was really the point of thinking about it?
Thoughts are actually kind of like the cookies in a cookie jar. You may think that you'll pull out something sweet, but there might be a stale cookie at the bottom that you don't want to eat. And when only crumbs are left, it's really upsetting just as when you believe that you can't have your own thoughts in fear of being judged for it. Sometimes you reach into a cookie jar and you don't know what kind of cookie you'll get from the jar. You just reach in and pull one out. If you take one out that you're allergic to you'll try to throw it away, but you don't really want to. Because you really want that cookie.
Our thoughts do make us who we are which also means that people can never know who we truly are unless we broadcast all of our thoughts to the world which I don’t think anyone would volunteer to do. I try pretty hard not to think about pointless things, because I tend to see things pessimistically for some reason, but sometimes I feel like I need to think about those things to get my mind off of other stuff I don’t want to think about. Those are the times when I go sit outside and try to get in that peaceful state of mind. Which never really lasts but I try to pretend it does.
I need some sort of snazzy sign-off line. Too bad I don't have an image of breakdancing penguins cuz that would be pretty awesome.☮
I like this. The cookie jar metaphor is cute. I think it's cool that you can think about anything you want and sort things out in your head with no consequences. No one knows what you're thinking. And, I think, when it comes to pessimistic thoughts, I always think about the big picture. Nothing's really the end of the world, and a lot of the everyday things we worry about about are just things that seem really bad in the moment but that moment fades and they're not important anymore. I worry more than anyone should because those moments control me, but when I snap out of it, I remember that none of those things are really that bad. Life is so not as serious as we think it is, because like you said in your last post, we're all going to die eventually.
ReplyDeleteSometimes there could be consequences to your thoughts though. Because if you get new information about something you could really regret how you used to think. For some reason I've always had trouble with the "it's not the end of the world" mentality. It just doesn't seem to work for me.
ReplyDeleteThat last part reminded me of this quote: "Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway"
The "it's not the end of the world mentality" is what I apply to everyone but myself. Out of the three of us and the rest of our group of friends, I'm the one who will most likely accidentally drop the cookie jar and then start panicking about it. Even if it's only chipped, you'll hear me whine about it forever. My expectations,hopes and fears live in the cookie jar which is why I don't want them scattered all over the place. I hate it when things don't go as planned, but allowing my thoughts to roam free helps me see things in a different light. So, Juliana, you're right too but you're reminding me of Mom, lol.
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