Have you ever pondered about a peculiar habit of human beings. Every person is given to visit often or intermittently to his most choicest or liked local place in his diurnal life. This place may be his regular sitting, gossiping spot in shape of a cafe, club or some cornered bench of a specific park. This may vary according to a person’s social standing and position. These visiting places oftener are spots where people gather to relax and refresh their mind. In such gathering, one enjoys talking about light, entertaining subjects to more grave issues. The issue of this blog is why a man prefers to visit such places?
The basic answer is, as a human being he finds there other like minded people of his category. Though it’s not true to utmost extent, since one does’t always find all people in harmony with his thought process. In a certitude, people with different ideologies and thoughts process, he is supposed to encounter there. This clash of different ideologies is suggestive of some hot debate or fierce argument amidst this gathering. May these discussions some time be healthy and soothing while on the contrary be hurting one as well.
Hurting in the sense, when you get defeated in a hot debate on facts, there you feel, either you were not good in projecting your points or lacked the proper feed back on the subject matter. Some times it occurs, the person arguing with you seemed to be an adamant. Never he gives up from his standpoint, despite his being illogical nor he accepts any rebuttal to his importuned theory. May be, you keep on maintaining with this adamant fellow the social contact but some where in your mind you keep him in the category of fool.
To make visit to such spot is a “mental addiction” and this addiction drags the man there in a routine. It’s supported by the reason, such places are spots of “spontaneous dialogues.” And these kind of discussion play a role of “mind teaser.” This mind teasing helps a man to give a vent to his pant up feelings. This is a kind of “outburst of thoughts” in a limited and decorous way. This out burst is the final emitting stage of the mental addiction.
But prior to that stage, some thoughts on some social or public issue generate in your mind. These thoughts then pass through a proper chain of synthesis and analysis in your mind. Then you reach to a mental stage, where the outcome of this “synthesis and analysis” get stored in your mind like a “burden.” The only solution to get rid of this burden you find to emit it in shape of debate and get it philosophized before other people.
Now it depends upon your efficiency, how you succeed in communicating your thoughts with other people. In this process, in consonance to your “out put of thoughts”; you may throw some question to initiate a topical debate. The prototype of this kindled debate is supposed to take an extensive shape, you already know that. But, there is a hidden angle behind this extensive debate, of which you may not be aware of.
Since, you have accumulated this burden of thoughts from your own personal perception . Not necessarily, that angle is going to be accepted widely by one and all. The perception of another man who caught your “issue” may go through to a “thought process” of his own with a different angle. In every discussion this process is certain to take place. When the debate goes on and on, in the beginning you were assured by yourself that your thoughts were compact and conclusive to convince other. But after a long discussion on the topic when it turns to another mode, it regrets you.
It makes you to repent, “Oh! My gosh ! I didn’t think from this angle.” Now upon your initiated topic a fruitful dialogue runs on and a “conclusion” is drawn, but this conclusion is not the same you anticipated. To some extent, it draws a satisfaction to you for kindling a hot debate, but a probability also lies, you regret for not considering its all aspects. Further, a regret in the way, you had been here to enrich the knowledge of your friends, but in sooth they enriched your knowledge. It may give you a sense of defeat either.
This kind of dialogues always keep a man engage into a “learning process.” Various types of thoughts happen to generate in one’s mind and in semblance to this, other kinds of thoughts are certainly bound to generate in friends’ mind. This is a process, that keeps on going in a certitude in every one’s mind. This process we may call “Nagging thoughts.” This process of Nagging thoughts is of so much help to make our social system prudent one and always plays a significant role to enrich people’s mind. Penned by — Vinay Pharasi —–
