SHADOW-BOXING WITH OUR PHANTOM
What goes on in another person’s mind – I can only imagine. But, what goes on in my mind – I can see, hear and feel. And, if I ever tell the world that I am able to ‘read’ what goes on in another person’s mind, then, it is a pure lie. I am bluffing! Just as what goes on in my mind, you can’t read, I can’t read what goes on in your mind. Therefore, all attempts to read another person’s mind ‘as a book’, I seriously consider to be a great mind-game we play. Yes, to kill our ‘excess’ time in hand! It is like chasing a phantom… Or, shadow-boxing with him! Another person has his own mind… Hence, he thinks his own thoughts. Now, what thoughts does he think and why does he think them… are two futile questions from my end. And, whenever I try to read his thoughts and, worse, try to prevent him from thinking them, I am already in the boxing ring, trying to knock out the phantom! “What a waste of time and energy,” I just got this thought, a while ago, i...