Order Of Thoughts

When you love someone, you want to do more and more things for them, you want to keep them happy by saying words that will make them feel warm, you will work hard to make the tiniest thing perfect for them.

But what is it like when you hate someone? Everybody does hate someone or the other- business enemy, political leader, school teacher, your neighbour, etc. You don’t want them to exist, you want to tease them or torture them. This is a natural response to hatred.

But we don’t do the above. Why? Roughly speaking, there are two answers:

1. We must respect law and order. If I do this, I will fall into a lot of trouble and eventually a punishment.

2. Even killing an ant is a bad deed. It has a bad feeling attached to it. Torturing some other human has an even worse feeling.

We can see there are two groups of people. One who relies on logic while the other on feelings. But no human is a strict follower of one group.

Several times in life you are on a cross-road. One path seems safe and the other is risky but has an intuition to it.

The other animals, while have a little logical order of thinking, most of their decisions are based on what they feel is correct. They do what they like to do. But as humans, we have perhaps lost the freedom of doing what we like to do. We need to care about the coming generation, of the society and the like. Occasionally, taking a logical decision is crucial but it is tough to ignore the feeling related to it. You know that you will be the one suffering the most if you take this decision. But you will be safe, your family will have food to eat.

While logic is a second order thought, intuition or feeling are of the first order. Both may lead to the same conclusion or contradictory. (Some philosophers believe that humans have infinite order of thinking, but let’s just stick to the first two.)

What I feel is, there is an age of following a particular route. College time is the most joyous time of one’s life. You do not have to worry about earning, about the society, not much is expected of you. This is the time you can ‘test’ such things. You can test what is better- to rely on logic or on feelings. Your mistakes will be forgotten, won’t affect many people around you, this is the perfect time to come out and do what you like to.

But there are people who rely on this feeling well beyond their college. These people either turn out to be a total failure or are bring about a revolution. Steve Jobs, Sachin Tendulkar, Elon Musk, Nusrat Fateh Ali, and several others were just failures in their life at some point in time. They had an option to do something safe, imposed upon them by the society, or do something risky, that they wanted to do. They relied on their intuition, perhaps they could sense that their work was a piece of art that the whole world would appreciate one day.

Life is a beautiful outcome of experiments going on in the laboratory of brain. I think that one must keep testing things, keep playing with nature. Of course, being cautious at times is very important, taking logical decisions is important on several occasions. But relying on intuition or feeling can bring a revolution, far bigger than ever imagined.