I think...
Rodin’s famous sculpture the Thinker!
I think...
If a mountain spring had stopped to think about the formidable distance it would have to flow to loose itself to the sea would it have ever gushed forth to become a Mississippi?
Fortunately, for us, it concentrated solely on flowing!
If the bit of vapour had stopped to calculate the odds of it someday forming a cloud would it ever have left the warm embrace of the ocean?
If the seed had wondered at its chances of surviving trampling, storms, herbivores and all the incalculable challenges life threw its way...would it have grown to become a tree?
Did a caterpillar ever think itself into becoming a butterfly?
We think...are we better off for it?
We think...but can we simply ‘be’?
If I hadn’t thought...could I have written this?
But then, would I need to?
And if I didn’t write...what would I ‘be’?
The more I write...the more I think...how many of us have thought and worried...and in so doing had reached their dreams?
Avi
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anonymous (24.7.03 08:21) If I hadn't thought, would I be here making a comment  Oh, puhlease ... Cheers!
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(24.7.03 08:26) oopsidaisy! U deserve a sweety
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anonymous (24.7.03 09:51) anonymous on 24 July 2003 at 09:48 I think - i think therefore i am ??? So confusing Sorry - forgot to leave my name - Dina P.S - This comment thingy sucks - why do i show as anonymous - ping the administrators about this issue Avi. |
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(24.7.03 11:57) I have thought. I do a lot of thinking. And they oft become dreams. On the bus usually. In fact - I am convinced that I "control" the bus when I'm on it. I often wonder when I step off the bus at my stop whether the bus actually gets to it's destination ... http://www.route79.com |
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(25.7.03 10:24) just brilliant. i am just full of admiration for the author of this piece. |
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Oddity (9.8.04 17:26) we all are. to think and to be are two different things. when you are, you dont need to think. you think to do. and when you are, you dont need to do...so there! observe a child, and learn what it is to be! I do that all the time! cheers, avi. you write wonderfully. but you know that.  )
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