Time to Look and Think
Life is laying so much on the line these days. Thinking and observing is something to wonder whether we do enough of it. Maybe thinking and observing should be required.
Lately, lay rhetoric echoes like noise in a vacuum. They say things like, “People don’t think these days, nor do they observe. They go about blindly not realizing consequences. They seemingly need programming, if not wounded-up, energized with thinking power to see and react.”
If the bad news is really true that people are not watching and thinking about what they are seeing, the good news is they soon will not be able to stumble about blindly with empty thoughts without feeling the consequences. People seem to be sitting on their hands when they should be flailing them about. Neither thinking nor observing should be put-off, but instead they should be active in one’s daily life. Look at the world!
Thoughts, thoughts, thinking, thinking, in my head, let them stop when I go to bed, dream instead of clouds, billowy-bright, flowery colors, things sweet like candy, comfort dandy.
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking,” Thinking Quotes (1903 quotes) Goodread. Let us not stop thinking.
From thoughts came farming, business, industrialization, manufacturing and technology. Look at what thinking can do.
Looking, looking, observing, observing, focus my eyes to what should be understood, that which should not, let it be packed-down, tucked away and relegated as not good.
“Observation is commonly used in education as a tool to support understanding and development.” Oxford Journal, Oxford University Press, Angi Malderez.
From observing, discoveries took rise, medical, pharmaceutical, treatment and prevention, mental mending and psychological hope. Let’s continue observing and continue being inquisitive.
How much thinking are we to do? Should it be automatic and free or targeted and focused? Is there a scientific or medical measure for how much thinking should be done? If one is observant, one is sure to think and think a lot. Observing can teach and thinking can protect.
New elementary girl, Cindy, excited and anticipating the first day of school, jumped and jumped and fell off the bed. She wailed in her own words, I was doing like the “five little monkeys jumping on the bed.” At your age, her father disapprovingly said; knowing what could have happen to her head. From thinking and observing, teaching and learning had begun. Think about it.
Thinking and observing what not to do is how life teaches you from childhood, all the way through.
Thinking helps one understand potential consequences of particular scenarios and observing helps one realize actions to aim for, to correct or avoid.
Thinking and observing are units that are all they are cracked-up to be.
What have you thought about today and what have you seen?