The reason why we consider ourselves the kings of the animal kingdom. The wonderful ability to use our brain to talk to itself and determine what is required of us by applying logic and ethics is the thing that sets us apart from the other creatures of this world. And when you think about it, it is quite weird.

First of all, thinking is quite hard. Even after creating 48 other chapters based around thinking, I've yet to learn how to control my thoughts. Writing them down helps but the act of writing them down also happens to be the hardest part. Whenever I go to write whatever thought down, my mind goes blank, even if I had been thinking about it the entire week before.

Thoughts are slow and incoherent, or atleast they are for me. There is no constant stream  of conscious thought in my head. Rather, they start off with one thing, branch off into  another and end on a whole other topic. Why does this happen? Why can't I choose to think about the specific thing I want to think about, which at the moment, is about thinking? This is the reason for my thoughts being slow. Its not that I can't think fast but theres just one too many things to think about.

Thoughts are the precursors to actions. They are what makes us get up and do something most of the time. Without action, thoughts are almost useless. For the amount of thinking that I do, I dont feel any the wiser to anything. Because thats all they are, just thoughts. I dont turn them into anything like ideas or solutions. They are, again, just thoughts, and nothing ever happened in this world by thinking alone, and nothing ever will.

It is not the ability to think that makes the human race special, it is the ability to combine the two. It is our unique ability to do things based off of our thoughts. It is how we've invented things and made civilizations. It's the doing that matters, not the thought. But then again, there is no action without thought. That's why its so important for us to not only think but learn how to turn our thoughts into actions and at the same time try our best not to lose ourselves in our thinking.

How do we do that? Well, like all other things- practice. For me, its practicing to turn my thoughts into ideas and my ideas into words, which I'm strugging to do so much right now. It definitely differs from person to person but in the end, thats all thats needed to do it- just practice. If we're able to do that then we'll be able to do almost anything. To conquer the mind is to conquer the body and thats all what thoughts are, the means to do.

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I apologize for this chapter being a bit all over the place. Like I said, I am very much out of practice after not writing for so long and I've been struggling with finding ideas and putting them into words so much that the only way i could get this done was by rambling and writing whatever comes to mind.