It's typical of me to ask a question as to propose my thoughts to the world, but I feel secure enough to make this a statement: great writing invigorates the mind. When I read I get the sense that a doorway has been opened to me and the author has now let me into his/her mind and view the world through his/her eyes. I gain their knowledge, their insights, their points of view, and I begin to understand things in a very different manner. It can be dangerous to venture too deeply within another person's mind, as it can sometimes be difficult to return. Then our own sense of identity is lost, surrendered. Still, I find nothing logically wrong with broaching the minds of others and utilizing their mindsets, we are adaptable creatures overall. We have the capacity to not be overcome, but to twist and fold such thoughts and synthesize them with our own. This is, essentially, the process of evolution, if only a mental state. We learn and grow, and largely, we evolve our thought process. The mind of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle conjured up the fascinating character Sherlock Holmes and his partner John Watson and created a literary masterpiece that has survived for over a hundred years, and it shows no signs of slowing. Sherlock Holmes has been taken by more modern day artists and fashioned into a television show, movies, and cartoon series if you would, but it is the most recent movie of Sherlock Holmes (Starring Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, and Rachel McAdams) that has been most invigorating to me. I've read the books some years ago though it has been awhile since I have laid eyes on them since, and I can't believe what I have allowed my mind to miss. Right now I stand here with my mind racing, thinking of problems I've had for days and trying to solve them from new aspects. I find myself looking everywhere around my house, noting the placement of different items around me, ever mindful of my surroundings. I feel so alive right now, it's hard to explain in mere words. My only wish is that it wasn't so late and I might be able to engage a fellow human being in conversation, for I have much to say and I worry that this mood will not last long enough for me to expound my thoughts to the world.
Thus why I'm here, blogging.
I have no reason to confess my solutions to problems that have been plaguing me on here, for that is far more detail than I care to go into this evening, but rather to take a moment and mark this moment of heightened senses and thought in history. Here now, a digital reminder to me of the power a book/movie/idea can invigorate a man's soul. I write this and mark it as a reminder to myself, as well as to anyone. When problems come your way, the answer is quite simple: research. Problems are often too complex for our solo thoughts to defeat alone, or present themselves in such a way that our narrow minds cannot work their way around them. There is a solution. Books and movies, novels and ideals, all of these things are floating in the air waiting to be welcomed into the chambers of our mind and show us a different route. There is a far more useful option to even that: people. While movies and books might be ways for us to enter the mind of someone, directly entering the mind of someone through conversation can be an even more enlightening process. Unity among people and the diversity of thoughts are more than enough to fell any problem. The answers exist among us, it's all a matter of opening our minds and asking the right questions.
Right now I can see the world where people engage with each other in such a manner, a unified body of individuals, of all individuals in existence, would never suffer difficulty again. Man and woman, old and young, white and black, thousands of things cause us to be different, we are as diverse as the difficulties that can assail us. It's not a coincidence. We are this way in order to solve problems. The solutions exist, no matter how improbable it may seem. "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
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