Of Thoughts & Reverse Thoughts

The thoughts we think without thinking we thought, and the thoughts we think we're thinking but aren't really thinking about.

For those who have ever seen Matrix the english movie, there's is this scene where the main character, Neo breaks the vase of flowers.

The dialogue goes along the line of :

Oracle: I'd ask you to sit down, but you're not going to anyway. And don't worry about the vase.

Neo: What vase? (He turns around to look for a vase and in the process breaks it)

Oracle: That vase.

Neo: I'm sorry.

When he asks Oracle how she knew, her response is what's really going to bother him later on is "Would he have still broken the vase if she hadn't said anything?"

Yes I realize Matrix has nothing to do with Bhagonwali, and I'm not off my rocker...not yet anyways. While the above conversation makes for an argument for predestined notions and self-fulfilling prophecies. I think you can kind of apply the thought process to that of reverse psychology employed in Bhagonwali.

Thinking is such a complicated process in its own that when you have to second guess everything you do or over think things it becomes even more mind boggling and confusing. The mind games we play...it's like inception...

Anyways don't worry I'm not going to go into theory...

Fifi (PRNerd) shared this and it was funny...so I thought to share with all among a few other things...(If I haven't lost you already with the above rambling)

Just a little something found on the internet...for time pass...don't take it all too seriously...

Originally posted by: gardes

Serious topic, Wafah. Like Usha, I think it could lead to all sorts of discussions. Very deep.

While self-fulfilling prophecy is conditioning your own mind, reverse psychology is playing with someone else's mind and the distinction is very clear. Both are transient states, leading to a positive or negative outcome. Overusgae of both can cause one's thinking to go astray - cause havoc!

Predestined notions (fatalism, inevitability) are beliefs you live by - a philosophy to subscribe to. Our culture tends to favor fatalism, a philosophy that life and events happen only due to God's will. It tends to take power away from our thought processes and intellect and can lead to inaction.

I work with someone always reminds me to be careful what I wish for, because wishing without understanding the consequences of the wish coming true are dangerous as well.

It is one thing to enjoy a TV show and laugh at the shananigans for Guddu and Runjhun or the M & Ms, but if this were reality, a lot of what is suggested can be the cause of ruination - Vishnu and Rajju using Guddu for their own purpose that came to bite them in their a** in their own house or Runjhun trying to change Guddu using reverse psychology has escalated the battle royale to where unforeseen things happen that are a far cry from innocent play.

PS - Love the cartoons! 😆