2018-07-12

Close minded people expect the world to be how they’ve always seen it
At some point in their life they close their minds and view the world as it has defined itself up to that point
Anything out of that view is absurd and unthinkable
Occurs sometime in early adulthood as the mind is used less newly and more repetitively
As the mind adopts constant routine thinking it adheres towards closure of learning, new thinking and thoughts
Why waste energy on new views when the old constitute enough for the same old life?
Strengthen what’s most important and discard the others
Routine thoughts and the subjective understanding of life becomes constant
And the mind closes

Open minded have no caged expectations of how the world may be
They acknowledge the vast possibilities
They know their limitations and ignorance
They know that existence defines what can be, not them
They know that anything can in fact be and they themselves only know what they’ve seen, not what they haven’t seen
Their minds avoid the common closure of the close minded through something quite simple
Curiosity
And an acknowledgment of ignorance and possibilities
Acknowledging the possibility of being wrong
My favourite

The mind is always searching for more and aware that the world is more than what it seems
That nothing is always as simple or complex as it is drawn
That anything can in fact be possible, only the likelihood of occurrence may be near extinct
Maybe even those acts that go against science can occur, within the right environment
Or maybe they can’t
But how are we supposed to conclude from what little we know?
What if