Coming up with an original thought is like saying, "don't breathe the same air as someone else." This air we breathe has been breathed by the ancients since the dawn of time; it's just been recycled by trees.
That is the way thoughts are. One idea's origins cannot be 100% original, because there cannot come something from nothing. Influences spark ideas, but those ideas came from influences sparked from another idea that came from an influence sparked from another idea that came from another influence that... you get the idea.
Put someone in a padded room from birth to death, with no other life-contact or interaction, and see what original thoughts they create. And then of course, there's human nature, and ITS sole influence... which cannot be stopped... only what one does with it is what makes the change or stasis. Most people choose the "path of least resistance," instead of altering their course... mostly on account of fear.
But HERE'S an idea for for an original thought... you be the judge of whether or not I pass or fail this assignment:
Compared to other people's thoughts, none of my thoughts are original, nor are the ideas I have ever thought what someone else hasn't... but they are ideas I have never thought. The ideas themselves ARE original to my mind.
Now I just have to think of something I've never thought before.
So just how do feathers grow?
I like that so many people continue to have unique thoughts (of their own) and ideas that go outside of the general norm... in which case EVERYONE has something original to say and think that originates from themselves AND from the influences that create "new" thoughts... and that those that know this DON'T CARE whether or not they're being original, as much as they desire to speak their mind.
This "nothing is new" thing has been around since Earth's day one. Ecclesiastes, anyone? Or for the more modern music lovers, Kansas' "Dust in the Wind," anyone?
And I don't mind thoughts that have been"thunk" before, so much as I mind when, 1) people claim originality of someone else's thought, 2) when media shoves certain agendas in the face of the mass public, or that television is people's GOD so much that they ASK it to tell them how and what to think/act/live/be... 3) that people actually ACCEPT this tripe by default, and 4) when the default isn't questioned at all! WHO is it that tells them this, and are they of sound mind? Are they NOT also human, and prone to imperfection? What are they selling? WHY?
BUT...
If a person's mind questions the why's/how's, and the intentions therein, and comes up with a contentedness in accepting the "norm," SO BE IT. I'm not bothered by that... unless the norm is NOT in LOVE (i.e., hate, hurting others/themselves, sin, apathy, etc.)... but that is another topic of discussion.
...And for this idea to get out to more than a few people in this vast universe, called the Internet (or should it be called, "Uni-net" or "Interverse?") would be a miracle that I cannot hope to generate... and am too shy to instigate.
If I ever want to do something more interactive with this post, I will have to draw on the influence of others' ideas, because it just isn't in me!
Originally Yours,
LGB
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3 comments:
I think we all are original, as God made us to be unique. But an original thought......I'm with you....they are few and far between! Thank goodness there are a few original thinkers still out there, though! Good post!
You're deep, my love! You seem to be hanging with this whole posting thing really well! Keep it up!
Very interesting point, my dear....I have to confess that I've pondered somewhat along the same lines. Every time I start getting an idea for a story, I realize that it has been done before. Not only has it been done before, but it's been done a LOT BETTER that I could do it before. It can be discouraging...but imagination is that spark of madness, and I do believe that every once in a while, an original idea does come forth.
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