Pinch of salt

Thought, its such a transient thing. Every second we get thoughts – good thoughts, bad thoughts, happy and sad thoughts, deep thoughts, cheap thoughts, silly thoughts, naughty thoughts, noble thoughts, cunning thoughts … and miscellaneous thoughts.

A stable human being has a stream of thoughts, flowing in an approximately streamlined direction. That direction points towards his beliefs, opinions, principles, morals, knowledge and so on. Basically everything from his opinion on the Iraq war to would you jump a traffic signal if no one is watching?

Everyone (at least most people) makes a lot of definite statements among their friends, family and colleagues.

“Whatever happens, I wont support corruption!”

“I will never ever leave my girlfriend.”

“I will never be untruthful to you.”

“I will give up my life, if its required, to protect you.”

Perhaps while making those statements we really believed in them, or just wanted to impress others by saying it. In either case, quite often we contradict our statements by our own actions. Funny example, I keep saying against corruption eating away our country’s progress, I keep howling on evil politicians and businessmen, but when a traffic policeman catches my bike, …. shhh.

The point is, I’m just human. And most creatures I’ve to deal with are human too. So, every statement I hear, from anyone’s mouth including mine, might not be true. Even though at that point of time, a person fully believes in something, it might change over time, or just circumstances could force them to.

So, take it with a pinch of salt.

PS: This doesn’t apply to mathematics, that’s just something so pure and definite.

PS2: Apparently when I use elevators; bungee jumping and all those risky stuff, I don’t fully believe in their safety. I really don’t want to be in news like – “A young man died in an elevator, when a rare case of elevator cable snapping happened. Its important to note that this happens only once in a trazillion times. … “