25 March 2006

Thought on thought.

Thinking is overrated. I'd much rather just feel my way through life. It seems that this thinking business is what makes me so stupid sometimes. If I didn't try to reason everything out, and I couldn't determine when to put up what facade, it seems like everything would be much simpler and much more fun. I just watched Constant Gardener and it's hard for me to believe that government is that crooked - but at the same time - any time that people become crooked is when we put rationality and reason above feeling, emotion, and human contact. When we become completely rational there are a few things which are thoroughly removed from our lives. The first one is love, because love is unreasonable. Therefore, why not abandon our quest for understanding and try the reality of our lives (whatever that reality might be)?

1 comment:

joshmeyer said...

i don't think thinking is overrated, but overrelyed upon. I have the same problem of rationalizing myself out of a perfectly good thing/opportunity. But what if we were to completely give up thinking and only live by feeling? The word would be a disaster; people would do stupid things just because they "felt like it"