Ripples in my mind

My first blog… Feels strange that I have decided to put my thoughts in writing and publish them on web for anyone and everyone to see. But I am assuming that not many would be interested in reading these random thoughts of mine, so this makes me safe. Moreover, as of now, not many people know about this blog of mine. J

I remember deciding to write diary once. But one day I saw someone reading it, and that was the last day my diary heard from me. After so many years I am again seeing my thoughts taking the form of words in front of me- the form which will grant them some permanence.

What are thoughts, by the way? I have always liked the idea of comparing thoughts with the ripples in water. Imagine a pond- tranquil and peaceful. Just then from somewhere a stone falls into it, and ripples appear- strong and powerful at first and getting faded with time. Similar is the case with our mind. As the serenity of our mind is ruptured by a disturbance of some sort, thoughts appear, and if left to themselves, they fade away and die. Just like ripples, they need a consistent source of disturbance in order to stay alive. I don’t know why people say that they need solitude in order to think. Thoughts can’t survive solitude. They need that stimulation to come to life and other thoughts in order to grow.

So from now on, wherever my mind encounters a disturbance of any sort, these ripples appear in my mind, and I feel that they would soon die because there is no other mind where I can find similar ripples to keep alive mine, I will pen down my thoughts. I will try to give them some permanence. Someday my mind might just find one with similar ripples and we would then be a source of energy for each other.

Till then, this is where I freeze time…