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I think it would be fair to say that i have started thinking a whole lot more since i started catching the bus.

Being someone who has always been comforted by silence i find having the time to sit everyday for 15minutes or so, and just let my mind wander to any place away from the realities of everyday life, so satisfying. I find it incredible how far your imagination can take you when you take the time to trail from reality once in a while and explore your own thoughts and concepts.


There is much to be learnt from the things that the external world cannot teach.


When you find your centre i think it becomes far easier to interpret and make sense of the outside world, and life begins to gain a whole new aura of meaning for you to ponder.

Sometimes i can't restrain my imagination and my focus is drawn from supposedly important tasks to matters and questions of its own. This can often lead to the accusation of me being deemed a time waster. However i firmly object to this assumption, as i don't see my time as being wasted at all. I see it as otherwise being explored and attended to.

Now in saying this, i don't mean that instead of studying i choose to sit and ponder my plans for the upcoming weekend. My thoughts don't trail to entirely unimportant matters, rather they trail to a sanctuary of other thoughts, such as attempting to visualise other aspects of why what i'm learning is important, or whether i even consider it relevant in todays modern society and how i would enforce and teach the things i find missing in the schools education system etc... anyway this is sort of steering from the specific blog i intended on posting - just another example of how frequently my thoughts deter lol- so i'm going to just continue with what it was i was initially saying...

The way that i see it is - if you get caught up in life and just follow one task that leads to the next and the next and the next, with a whole lot of routine but not a lot of your own input and thought, you wind up lost and confused. When this happens you are ultimately just following a trail which someone else has put in place for you and are automatically accepting because, well, it's 'simple', it's 'safe'. But with this 'safe' trail, while you may make it to end, chances are you will stand there at the end of the route, wishing that you could walk back and start again.
Whereas if you set aside life once in a while to leave room for your self and your own collation of thoughts, gathering more and more as you create your own path, it keeps you balanced and you are able to live a life which is solely created by yourself and never dominated by rules or boredom.
As is commonly said; "Life is what you make of it"
So i say, take risks and make decisions based on your own inhibitions and desires, rather than following trails which others attempt to lay out for you.
When you come to the end of your route, there is no going back, so take all the risks and explore all options along the way, because a straight path - while it may be deemed "successful"- only leaves room for regret and that empty feeling of "what if..."