Sharing your thoughts

   

Subject: Sharing your thoughts.

"We think therefore we are" and through thought we express our thoughts in words.
The beauty in words and the part they play in our thoughts. Thoughts which define who we are and so the words have to be carefully chosen. The richness of language and our confidence to use the language, trying to articulate who we are in this circular journey in which we engage, garnering  the essence, and the substance of what we believe is true.
Does believing in something matter or is life like a kaleidoscope of moving images, each relatively unconnected. Is there a theme to our lives or are we chaff thrown up in the wind to blow about hither and thither, no specific direction, no particular objective.
From Socratic 'pluralism' to Pluto's 'solitary reflective', mankind has been troubled by our role in society as individual people. The giving and the withdrawal of ourselves and the balance we try to achieve between the two. Our integration with people and the reluctant interrogation, within ourselves as a response, of what we have exposed of ourselves.
Of course there are people who are polar opposites and are no worse for it. Their thinking has lent them a position, a hook on which to hang their proverbial jacket which they try on each day and feel comfortable wearing. The jacket describes who we are even the scraps of paper in the pocket reminding us of what we thought yesterday and have decided or wish to remember..
John Redwood is as contrary a figure to Jeremy Corbyn as you can find.
Mrs Worthington-Peet has little in common with Jessy Higginbottom. Lee Huang and Mahdi Algafari, Marco Rossi or Achim Muller all come from backgrounds in which formative thoughts are embedded in cultures which are as different as are the names of the individuals who carry them and yet as human beings there are certain common elements in which we all coalesce.
We love in the same way, we all feel pain and disappointment in the same way and yet our respective cultures has taught us to respond outwardly in accordance to the norms of that culture. From the stiff upper lip to the wildly romantic from the formal to the mystic we differ and it shows. The culture and the society within that culture plays a part in how open we are, or how closed, is it any wonder that misunderstandings arise.
At best finding a "mean" to negotiate our way is all we can expect and it is made especially difficult in a multicultural society. The variables are trip points, ensnaring us in confrontation and are much more numerous.
"Two minds are better than one", and three, is better still, the more we can share our thoughts, has to be beneficial and to everyone's advantage.