Have you ever looked at someone and summarised what you thought of them in 5 seconds flat?
I bet you have.
I bet you've done that more than once.  More than twice in fact.
Whether you  said it out, or not.
 
But then, have you ever summarised YOURSELF?
 
In other words, as you stereotype others, have you done the same to your very own being?
 
I'm Dumb. I'm Stupid. I'm Fat. I suck. I'm a Loser.
 
I bet we all have gone through that Self Stereotyping Phase once. But thats not the point of my post.
 
Do you realize that our society likes to bring one down? How in some communities, they call their child "Wok" as in the short term of "Buruk" which in Malay, means ugly. Why do you ask? Why call a child you have not even seen grow such a word? Such a literally ugly word? Oh, they say its to make the child not grow ugly when it's older.
 
For some strange reason, we all think bringing one down, is a good thing, it shows that you are "being humble". But really, malaysians do stereotype others, and themselves for the worse.
 
Have you realized that sometimes when we stumble over a long lost relative in a mall or a cafe, the first thing they do is
a) ask what your education status is now
b) comment on how you gained weight
 
I'm not going to stereotype this post into saying its short and uneventfull, eventhough I think it is. (Refer to post below)
I'm not going to say how horrid i feel today.
 
Heres my theory anyway.
I am my worst hypocrite. And you are yours.

I have realized that my past 2 posts were emotional babble therefore I think I better write something better then.

What's on my mind? I'm thinking. I'm thinking about the way we think.

Why think about such a thing you ask? Maybe because I am intruiged by the way we think about things in different ways of thinking.

OH ! Who would've THUNK Ainaa could baffle the way you THINK with using the word again and again?

Okayokay, enough with that. Here are my thoughts.

Interlude
Have you ever thought about the way our minds work? How we are all spontaneous and random when it comes to thoughts. How everybody's thoughts are unique because we all have been shaped in different ways, seen different things and have different personalities. Even siblings who grew up closely with each other's thoughts differ. So theres no doubt about it, we are all individuals in the way we think.
Or so we think.

//Openning
So why list this all down Ainaa? Whats the point in you writing down what all that we know ? Well have you ever thought about the way we think? The way referring to the concept and category that we think?

For example, to certain people:people who think in a postive way are called optimists when thinkers who think negatively are called pessimists. People who dare to have different views are called open minded and those conservative are called narrow minded.
But then, to certain people, its the other way round.
What if, those were wrong ways of putting it? I mean come on, there aren't any SI Units for behaviour and personality, good and bad, right and wrong and of the sort. They all seem different to everyone.

So, my movement today is, Is There A Right Way Of Thinking ?

Verse One
Phsycologists who make money from talks and motivational camps and the sort would say this this this and that that that and we all would think its the right way of thinking and soon enough we'll be getting straight As.

Some of us however will only scoff and would do better without wasting that 100 bucks. So, this goes to show that some ways of thinking doesn't apply to some people. We all arent cloned cds with the same crack. We're different, we're unique, we have our own serial number.However, we're not the same game.

//How about categorisation of thoughts? Psychoanalysts look at you and say you're pessimistic and optimistic and God knows what but in the end, what do they know?

Is being optimistic thinking about the most positive outcome? Does being pessimistic mean you're doing the opposite when all you are doing is just thinking of the most possible outcome?

If you catch my drift then thanks.

And like I said, different people think differently. Lets say,Group A ,thinks not caring about differences in religion or race and so on is fairly open minded and Group B thinks thats just plain crap and Group A are just trying to look openminded.

Does that make Group A open minded or just plain poseur? Does that make Group B really really narrow minded?

Does narrowminded look like thinking you're the only right soul?

Try and put yourself into one of those shoes, think about it.

Chorus
When you really believe in someting and hold tight to your judgement, you tend to think your points are right. Especially during arguements.

But then, won't that make YOU NARROWminded because you think YOUR VIEWS are RIGHT?


So think about it. In your own way of thinking in what is right.

But then, is thinking the right way, the right way to think?