Are the thoughts that strike our mind all our own? Or they enter into our subconscious from hearsay?

Are we influenced by others’ choices/preferences?

Are we at all original in our thinking? Or we’ve become so accustomed to thinking on others’ line of thought?

We start liking some people based on their likeability among others. That one dress we bought with so much of excitement, but couldn’t wear it more than once. Why? just because someone didn’t quite like it on you and you followed their remarks by not liking it. We conceal our own choices and get buoyed by the ones put across by others. We replicate people by trying to follow their thought process. Are we listening to our mind or letting our mind wander through the coliseum of thoughts put before us. Are we doing that?

Let’s examine things you have done based on other’s viewpoint. And yes, this ‘you’ includes me as well.

Remember that one dress you bought with so much excitement, but couldn’t wear it more than once?

Why? just because someone didn’t quite like it on you and you followed their remarks by not liking it. We conceal our own choices and get buoyed by the ones put across by others. We replicate people by trying to follow their thought process. Are we listening to our mind or letting our mind wander through the coliseum of thoughts put before us. Are we doing that?

Someone didn’t quite like it or made fun of it. And you followed their remarks by not liking it. We conceal our own choices and get buoyed by the ones put across by others. We replicate people by trying to follow their thought process. Are we listening to our mind or letting our mind wander through the coliseum of thoughts put before us. Are we doing that?

Why stop at clothing? TV shows, movies, food, and every damn thing in the world follows the same trajectory.

We conceal our own choices and get buoyed by the ones put across by others. We replicate people by trying to follow their thought process.  We let our mind wander through the coliseum of thoughts put before us. Why are we doing that?

Even the faults, we notice in others, are a result of someone else pointing it out to us. Certain linguistic errors (if I may call it that), only comes to everyone’s rapt attention when pointed out.

Ravi Shastri wouldn’t have sounded like this (you know, right) in his commentary style had someone wouldn’t have told us so. The ever so repeating “well, of course” by Dhoni in post-match press conferences might have escaped our attention had no one paid extra attention to it. Your friends’ irritating habit of saying some words in a weird way would have been bearable to your ears before another ‘kind’ friend enlightened you with it.

We may say that it’s not true that we get influenced by the thought processes of others; rather our thoughts are only influenced by our brain and it’s all just a co-incidence.

The intersection of thoughts with that of others is purely a co-incidence.

Agreed. There can be a lot of similarities between thought-processes. We all are wired in a similar manner, of course.

But what amuses me is how people tend completely base their opinion and thoughts based on what’s ‘cool’ now and disregard their own thought process.

So, what’s your original thought on this ?