I am supposed to be working right now. I am supposed to be pushing papers across my desk from "in" to "out," but today is not quite the day for meaningless tasks. If Sartre was right in his postulate "I think therefore I am," then thoughts we carry are the very essence of who we are, but since thoughts are not tangible, are not something we can clutch and only exist within the human mind, easily transferable from one tongue to the other, are we then immortal? Thoughts are immortal, there is no real life span of a thought. Democracy and dictatorship are both schools of thought and continue to this day, and those who are the forethinkers of these ideas remain in our societies and in some way still exist. When we think of peace, who comes to mind: Socrates, Jesus, Gandhi, Dr. King. When we think of democracy in the United States, another list of people: Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, etc. Each intangible ideal and idea has someone attached to it from art to murder to fanaticism.
I says, think wisely because one day you may be remembered for your thoughts.
"A man is but the product of his thoughts; what he thinks, so he becomes." - Mohandas Gandhi
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