Preface

25.5.09

Preface

After much persuasion, here it is! I must confess though, that I have attempted this exercise once before but to no avail!

And so here goes again... my attempt to catch random floating thoughts and pen them down anxiously. Hence the name. Thought Camp. We're surrounded by thoughts. All kinds of them. Pleasant and unpleasant ones. At times they tend to cramp our minds and blur our subjective visions. And so it helps to catch them one by one, pin them to the paper and scrutinise them over and over till we're clear about exactly how we wish to interpret them. Painful exercise as it seems, it's our only escape!! And the strange part about this is ... no matter how many of these thoughts we take credit for analysing, there are still many more of them wandering about out there. Many more dozens of similar confounding thoughts just waiting to be caught. So then why the copyright? Aah! There comes the irony. We take privilege in inventing ideas that were out there anyway. We just find them. And claim to make them our own!! We take pride in having widened our horizons and looked beyond the ordinary, to see things that others may not have seen!


Strange.


But here would be many of these thoughts, caught and analysed to great depth constrained by my abilities and restricted to discussing not people, but beings. Not occurrences but situations. Not ideologies but beliefs.