Thinkers

Ancient civilisations could not quite place the brain. It seemed too inert to do much. All other crucial organs were coursing with blood vessels, except this pale white, mucusy blob whose purposes were as secretive as it was, only seen post-mortem. What was the solution to its labyrinthine furrows?

We are all talented in different ways, Spartans threw sickly newborns off a cliff thus raising a kingdom of warriors, smart ones even. What was a Spartan 'high school' like? I digress. Other provinces of Greece applauded both mental and physical prowess. I do not know of any culture (of philosophers maybe) that threw their dumb-jocks away. Some people are thinkers and others are not, (don't know what to call the non-thinkers yet). And many more are in between, plying both climes successfully.

The battle for the soul is in the mind. Before we do anything for good or evil, a plan is sparked in our little brains. And there it is incubated, nourished and eventually birthed or it is starved and aborted. The less mentally apt have ways of quickly taking their battles out of the mental realm. I am not well versed with this. A weak example is my friend who has concluded that he needs to do these '15' things to keep an even keel. When anything is off kilter, he goes through his list and ensures everything is in place, and he has done well for himself. He is of a ripe age, enviably moving along in his life. I on the other hand (the weak example of a thinker) will ford my mind for reason, motive, cause, effect and so on. Everyday problem solving is a mental pursuit. Put me in my friend 'List of 15's shoes - when something is not in line I look at the situation then I trace its life to find the source of my problem. If and when the source is found I clean it up, sometimes I like the source so I prune it and try to remember to keep it up so that the problem does not persist. If it does, then I have to come up with a new plan...the point is there are rarely easy, cut and dried solutions, but rather flow diagrams, and decision trees that branch in numerous directions. It is a wonder to many how I have made it this far, yet I make it work. List of 15's methods are insane to me, to him I am just insane, forget methods.

What happens when a Thinker becomes terrified of his mind? When his element has caused him hurt and he will not venture there anymore? I have tried before to run from my mind. I have tried to stop it, to slow it down anything for a moment's quiet. I have never succeeded. It keeps going, so I removed the leash. There is pruning and killing necessary to keep a clean mind, but I have let it go. Let it run. Until the next time it causes me pain...I will shy away for a while and dive back in. It is where I live my best.

Let it run, if it is your element, it is who you are. Be.

I wonder who I would be in the village had I been born in ancient times? A mediocre mind like myself.