About that title...

Entitled "At this instant...", this blog is nothing more than the thoughts of one person (me) at a given moment (now). The idea of writing about something i had been thinking of earlier in the day seemed like too much of a chore, and i feel i wouldn't be doing the thought justice if i were to try and retrace the cognition process that happened hours/days earlier. Thoughts are purest at birth. Immediately.

My perception of a thought is more or less the internal monologue you perform for yourself in order to organize your ideas. In your mind, in your language, in your voice. Pause... Back on track! When an idea pops into your head (actually, im going to speak for myself, because im no mind reader, i cant tell you what you're thinking, and if i was, women would never be an issue) *ahem* (come to think of it, they probably would still be.) When an idea pops into my head, i immediately form a picture to the best of my abilities. We are, for the most part, visual learners, and i am no exception. So this picture, in a sense, is the purest of thought that i can imagine.

Regardless of idea, whether it be something physical like a ball or a muffin. Or-

Damn.. i havent had a muffin in a long time man...

Or something non-physical like the action of running, the notion of friendship, or even the thought process itself (which, btw if you think about long enough, you become stuck in an infinite loop and someone has to reset you manually.) There is some visual concept that we feel comfortable with.

For some reason, when thinking of a day of the week, or month, or year, i immediately picture a single calendar, joining every month in succession in a vertical stack, and scrolling down, zooming, and locking in on the target date. Winter is usually colored white, Spring and summer have a comforting greenish-yellow glow, and fall is always covered in leaves. Also depending on the time of year, i will zoom and scroll from different directions. How do you visualize non-physical concepts? Give it a thought. get back to me.

Tangents are always formed in conversation. Why? because of a single instance in time. A single turning point where somebody's mind went from "Avatar was so good" to "I never watched that show" to "Man Nickelodeon was the best channel when i was a kid" to "I miss Rocko's Modern life". These connections are made almost seamlessly, and yet if we look at our start and end point, they seem completely unrelated.

This is the spark that ignites the fuel of innovation. The starting point of genius. The beginning of "why?"

Nothing more than an instant.

This instant.

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-Slater