The prism of the mind

All of us think differently. There are no two individuals on this planet who think alike in every respect. At least that's what identity is said to be about. So what constitutes identity? When we speak of an identity that stems from the mind we must understand that this is something that's completely different in the sense that it's transient. We have constantly changing thoughts and beliefs and hence our mental identities are as ephemeral as our ever-mutating cerebrations.

What we think changes everything. The way the mind processes information about the world influences our lives more than anything else. Every individual's mind is like aunique prism. One that takes thoughts, feelings, events, information and virtually everything else and processes it for making sense of it all. But 'sense' is variously defined for everyone. That's because we see things differently.

To broadly categorize schools of thought( believe me a broad categorization is blsaphemy...a meek understatement for something so profound)....there are those who think positive and those who think negative. The proverbial optimists and the doomsday cult. And there are the multifarious shades of grey between the black and the white.

To those who think positive, life has a definite pattern.....everything follows a rule....a rule that nothing goes wrong...usually that is. And for their negative thinking counterparts with a negative psychic prism...nothing can go right....not even occasionally.

The prism of the mind does amazing things to all of us. It holds us prisoner of our own thought process. What becomes a set pattern in the mind becomes very difficult to change. It may seem remarkable then that the world is many different places at the same time simply because we see it so differently. Through the prism of the human mind, reality is suddenly a variable. But the view is great.Right?