Bound Thought

Imagine your life as a bundle of news papers. News papers themselves are simply a source of information printed on a page, but for the purpose of being imaginative, your life is a bundle of news papers, tied together by a piece of twine.

Those news papers represent your thoughts, ideas, dreams, goals, pretty much all the information that you, as a vessel of information, contain. The twine represents the limitations placed on that information. Most of us would like to believe that our stack of news papers is far larger than the average mans, but boundaries of thought are literally ingrained in our societies and cultures which serve to limit the expansion of information we give consideration to.

Religions, laws and governments, and even our educations tell us, "this is the way it is," and most of us do not ask why, we just accept that information as the way of truth that need not be deviated from. We trust the sources and thus invite facets of society to bind our thoughts and our opinions, which often results in people becoming fearful and even hateful of that information which falls outside of those teachings.

A friend recently said, "Life and love have no boundaries and therefore cannot be contained by a concept created by or from bound thought." Interestingly enough, human beings do a fantastic job of binding the ways in which people think about life and love, possibly more than anything else. But there is a severe drawback to allowing the scope of information you consume--your knowledge--to be commandeered by external influences.

Among many things, bound thought limits us from ever realizing all that we potentially have to be grateful for. When our thought process begins to explore uncharted territory, we either tighten the strings that hold our limited stack of information together or we loosen them, expressing a willingness to add more to the stack even if that information falls outside of what is considered an acceptable truth.

The world has so much to offer. We can either live in the world or live within our thoughts.