What Were You Thinking

Listen to "What Were You Thinking" on Spreaker. My father was crucial when it came to how his children thought. No matter what we did he'd always stop the walk and ask, "What were you thinking?" As a teenager I'd never have a truth filled answer for him. I wasn't interested in what I was thinking it was more about what I was doing. As a daily writer my process of progress is all about documenting what's endlessly moving through me. I don't write thoughts down for me. It's to locate how these thoughts can reach others who need to stop and think. I'd love to be a bird sitting in a tree. All of these things we push ourselves into bringing into a moment of reality must look like an ant hill with a billion six legged insects dashing for whatever they feel they should be doing. What were you thinking when you first started the car this morning? What were you thinking during the Critic's Choice Awards when your favorite movie or television show didn't go home with the trophy? On this podcast I go back to November of 2016 and study the thoughts of a writer who honestly put into his pages, "The American dream isn't what you think. Ask anyone who prefers to dream about being healthy and never getting hurt more than anything." Social Media is a thinking persons sport. Dropping a thought bomb on travelers that may or may not give you a reaction. There have been many times where I've punched in a thought and by morning I had to quickly take it down. I've asked, "What were you thinking?" A person doesn't have to truly know you to come up with what they think of you. Once you toss a thought out there do you ever think about the impact of how a reader is interpreting your expression? Once it connects you can't take it back. Being a thinking kind of writer puts your creative mind in several different places. With too much thought you can easily become a perfectionist. Too much thought takes away from being present in this place of now. Too much thoughts might influence friends and family to ghost you. Thinking about everything takes the fun out of just doing it.