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What changes the world?

With the common knowledge of natural processes aside, the possible true things that give shape to mankind and his inhabiting planet are the “what if…”s and “suppose…”s that he comes up with in pursuit of development and convenience. We, human beings, have increased the rate change with our propagating ideas and evolving creativity. Although it is difficult—and perhaps impossible—to prove, I believe that human thought is a form of energy.

Thoughts, like many energy forms, need to be refined and harnessed before being availed of. They function as our creative capability’s raw material to tangible outputs such as diagrams, drawings and the very technology we use in everyday life. For instance, as students, we are often required to make a paper on a certain subject, in which we are asked to formulate reasoning and support. To polish whatever idea we find useful, we need to put it in a coherent form we call words. Words and language are now the harnessed form of thought.

Thought is an inexhaustible energy source that is capable of defying limits and multiplying work in the speed of light. Anyone has liberal access to it virtually anytime and anywhere. There are moments in which we find ourselves not being able to write or draw or produce, and it would seem that this energy has been exhausted. On the contrary, it is the physical energy that we’ve lost: that ability to relate—or refine, in energy terms—and maintain ideas. Thought is the force that makes the distinction of the brain from the mind. Autopsies and surgeries able doctors to feel the depth of the brain’s lobes, see the gray of its surface and smell its bodily substance; probing machineries reveal brainwave patterns and rate. However, these are abstracted things that do not show exactly what the brain contains or what the patterns of brain waves mean.

Various energy forms come from their respective element sources such as light, earth, water, wind, radioactivity and electricity. So where does thought come from? A source that primarily reflects how one is well-developed is creativity. It has stock thoughts waiting to be polished into books, discoveries and art, be it in music or drawing. Thoughts spring from creativity’s nature to relate and dissect things. Those who have tapped into their creative levels have guide books on how to find this energy source. For example, books that help how to tell stories give exercises on relating one random thing with another to form a relation; thus, forming a thought. While creativity is original and raw, inspiration is another source of thought that is “ready to cook”. Books, music and drawings often reflect other works that may have been used as inspiration. Going back to the example of story-telling: people are encouraged to read not just to learn on how to shape a story, but also to get a grip on thoughts that evoke “what if…”s and “suppose…”s.

As we have experienced with change, energy forms are not always used for good. The same goes for thoughts. Its sources are just a neuron’s spark away, and it can be harnessed anyhow we please. I believe that this delicate energy force is the most powerful and dangerous of its kind and should not be put to waste. As the saying goes, “the mind is a terrible thing to waste”.