Tots of Thought

We live in a world of ideas. Daily and hourly, we are bombarded with messages laced with ideas both overt and subtle. As a natural impetus towards finding purpose, meaning and fulfilment in life, every one of us must live by an idea one way or the other. But, therein lays the problem – how do we choose the right ideas?  As individuals, whatever thoughts, philosophies, beliefs, opinions and notions we subscribe to determine what we think of ourselves, how we think about others, what we uphold as ideal and worthy of pursuit and what we discard as worthless or irrelevant. The history of the world is essentially the history of ideas. The annals are awash with the history of many men and women who put their lives on the line because of the conviction they had in their ideas. We also know, through bitter experience, men and women who have gone as far as taking the lives of others because of what they believed. Were they wrong? Were they right? You decide. But whatever your verdict...

She was born in a golden castle walled with opportunities and comforts She grew up with the high and mighty, the powerful and the pompous. She lived the life of a continual Christmas mingled with love and fun And was fed with many stereotypes about guys like me but she swallowed none. The contrast between us was plain enough for the blind to see But the rebel in her brought her to me. I am heir to no throne neither am I aligned to a name people recognize. All that was bequeathed to me was faith and the will to survive. I couldn’t afford to give her any assurances; not even that of a moderate size Yet she resisted all the caution against me which the world could contrive. I was never the kind of man with whom they wanted her to be But the rebel in her brought her to me. She knew who I was – faults included – but she did not mind. She saw this greatness in me the shadow of which all others struggled to find. She fought off the prophecies of doom and ...