“If you sit on the doorstep long enough, I daresay you
will think of something” From the Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien.
On
the precipice of a thought, sometimes we lose it when our focus is distracted
and we trail off to different things in our minds. For those who think they do
not have any thoughts on something, one only needs to ask a basic question to
start the process of thought. For example, if someone says something and no
thoughts immediately come to you, realize your emotions and feelings in the
moment, and then let them be manifest into thought. Patience is one of the most
worthwhile traits to develop because, even when you do not think anything is
happening, you still continue to press forward towards the goal. Furthermore,
patience gives one the wisdom to understand that trying to arrive at a
destination without a journey is a fantasy. Those who lack patience do not
realize that the golden idea needs time to develop and mature. People who say
that a golden thought came out of nowhere most likely fail to grasp that the
thought was inspired by sub-conscious levels of thought and experiences that,
just at the moment, bore the fruit that inspired the golden thought. It takes
time and tending of the garden for things to grow and develop, and thinking is
no different. In addition, I believe most people have at least a slightly
skewed perception of thought, believing it’s a phrase or the next thing on my
list; it’s more than that. The definition of a thought is any product and form
of mental activity, which includes those thought forms not conscious to the
person in decision making abilities and rationalities. This ties into the flow
experience in which those things that we are not always conscious about, but
come out in moments of flow, such as in speaking and writing, are just the same
as thoughts, just in a different form. In The Hobbit, the quote comes from Bilbo
when he speaks openly to the dwarves about going on their journey and about how
to get into the mountain and past the dragon. To them, he was referring to the
fact that, because they had a passionate reason for going, in no time, a
thought would arise to go about fixing the problem. Thoughts come more
naturally for an individual when it is personal to them, whether they be good
or bad thoughts. In another angle to me, the doorstep Bilbo is referring to is
the Lonely Mountain so, in other words, he is saying that the solution to the
problem can only first be solved when they arrive there. Reflecting on this, I
believe this is true for many things because it is hard to size up a scene and
think about various avenues of approach without being there. In the end, for
the dwarves, the doorstep was more than what they were hoping for or expecting.
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