Dear Thoughts,

I find you plucking at my brain within a variety of instances in my day. It's the moment I feel you plucking even harder I decide to rest. At times, I've wondered if I spent more time thinking, then simply doing. Then I thought, I do INDEED spend a massive amount of time thinking and I've realized that the only action I commit is resting, but then, surprisingly, even within resting, I realized one is still thinking. 

We think all the time as individuals, even when we think we are resting. Isn't it weird how we think we are resting and that within itself, becomes a thought? We think all the time and some of us, think so much we begin to create an idea to the point in which some of us, become lucky enough to make that formulated idea happen. However, some of us (like myself) get so caught up in thought we merely drown away our faith in ever making that thought an idea. 

But there's luck, Emerson knows many individuals who suffer too from this problem by defining it in a way in which readers like myself can relate. He says,

"Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas, which they never pass or exceed. They stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power but they never take the single step that would bring them there." (from his Experience)

In a sense, we all are the friends that Emerson is discussing here, we, the friends, don't "pass or exceed" our ideas because we don't believe we can, we are not self-reliant. Emerson chooses to use our friends to purposely direct the problem towards others, to cleverly try and not offend the reader. The result, it becomes the reader that chooses to either relate or not, like, as if it is up to the reader to see if they too suffer from this problem, like the friends here. Once we choose to transform ourselves from reader to friend, we learn a lesson, we are indeed the friends and we suffer indeed from thinking too much, there becomes no room for acting on it. It's almost as if  We already stored the brilliant ideas within our heads however we do not sell our stored ideas, instead we choose to leave it out of stock and place it never for sale. 

But today, today is exceptional, we can do our thoughts instead of just thinking them. Firstly, we can start by believing we can. Once we can confidently deem we can, we secondly do the action. Let us now share our thoughts to the world by taking a step towards allowing our thoughts to stroll, to walk, to run, to the etc! When this occurs, thoughts change from thinking it, to creating it, and finally to using it, in helping the world. We no longer stand at the brink of the ocean of thought and power a limited thinker, instead, we become the influential thinkers who now swim within the ocean of thought and power. 

Let your thoughts not only drift affectively but allow it to glide EFFECTively, toward others. ;)

Staying within Happy & Effective Thoughts,

Karina