So I’m about to start work and I’ve probably dragged out starting this morning by too much, but in my defense I have been doing stuff, and now I’m in front of the computer and, as always, I don’t know if I should be thinking of anything to write, or if I should write, or all that stuff and you get the idea.

I think that if I think enough, there will be some more thinking followed by less thinking. I think that if I think I will think. I think I’m just trying to get started and I don’t want to, and so that’s that and this is this, and therefore that way followed by this way and I get the idea.

So there is this thing known as thinking and it involves using the power of the brain to construct thoughts that have no voice, or maybe they do. Who am I to say? But anyway, it’s this magic and wondrous thing, and let me tell you, it gets the job done, or at least I hope it gets the job done. It doesn’t always, of course, but usually it does, and when it does, it certainly does, if you get my drift.

Of course this is not always the case, but when it’s the case it can lead to many things and many conclusions, but often there is a sense of the paralytic and inaction, and sometimes thoughts die as quickly as they are birthed, and sometimes they don’t. Sometimes you just wonder about these things and maybe you wonder too hard and then it all goes pear-shaped, and that’s it. Call it a day because you’re done, and so is the thought, or series of thoughts that you had that led to that thought, and maybe it wasn’t as conclusive as you thought it was, but sometimes that’s life.

Sometimes I think about thinking and the processes behind thinking; not so much the synapses firing and all that, but rather how a thought is formed and where it comes from, and what shapes the processes of thinking. What influences are required for someone to have a thought, if there are influences at all? How often do things really just pop into the brain? Are there trains that lead to these things more often than we realise?

These are all basic questions, of course, and I don’t know how much of it is philosophical, or scientific, or something else entirely. I don’t know how much overlap there is between those there is when it comes to thinking about this kind of thinking. There’s probably a lot of overlap, but that’s not for here, I don’t think. I’m running out of words anyway and so I need to try and wrap this up in a conclusive way that makes sense, but I’ve got nothing. This whole bit of writing has been a struggle really, but it has given me less to think about, or maybe more, I think.

The time it took to write five-hundred words: 06:38:70

Happy with the speed. Not sure about the writing. Too meandering and doesn’t say much of anything (which is, as they say, on brand), but it does cover something.

Written at work.