Our Thoughts

What is this need we have to share our own thoughts? To have them be not only heard, but known? Why have I created this blog, just to get my thoughts on some anonymous forum? Is it some kind of accidental result from evolving farther in one direction than we should have / were actually built for? Is Philosophy just the result of an evolutionary mistake? Is there no reason to this, and the answer simply is: "That's just the way things are"?

Poison.

Of course there may not be a reason, or even concrete reason, for everything, but also of course; this won't stop me from wondering.

Is it, perhaps, an instinctual way / a tool we use to further our evolution? After all, without sharing our thoughts, we would not have come to certain conclusions that aid in our collective health. We would not have concluded that "those berries make us sick". That we function better when we don't have headaches, and so here is some medicine to make that go away.

If that is so, then it would make sense that - in natural human form - we unconsciously / subconsciously took it even further and got so used to sharing our useful / scientifically species preserving thoughts that we fell into the habit of sharing other thoughts. Any thoughts. Thoughts that, in my opinion, sometimes do not need to be shared. It has become such a strong part of our culture; not just sharing thoughts, but the act of talking to once another / conversing. So much so that it has become rude to not talk. (Enter: small talk. Ech.)

Certainly I know not the cause for the drive. Other animals / species communicate, but in a way that appears to be much more basic. I'm happy to see you. I'm hungry. Eat this so that you are not hungry. Don't fall in that hole. And I am including other social creatures, such as chimps, as I know this conversation-habit is due, in part, to the instinct to be social / part of a tribe. I also think a lot of it has to do with how important we believe our thoughts to be. How highly we value our epiphanies. It is gratifying to feel clever. But I don't feel as though that is all there is to it. I feel as though that would just be a side-effect.

I try to live a life of intention, but I honestly have no idea why I do this. Other than the fact that it feels good, I suppose. I love conversing more than I love most activities. (Really beautiful conversation, I mean, with people who really matter to me.) I do want to know how other people are fairing, and so far, haven't found a better way of learning such things. And then I suppose I respond in kind to be respectful and to keep the conversation going so I can spend more time with them. Or to tell them something they may find interesting or entertaining. I love making people I care about laugh. I wonder when that started. As a society, I mean. I know when it started for me (when I realized quoting Ace Ventura could get a laugh in most circles). Does it come down to a need to entertain? I suppose I could just keep going on this, since thought sharing is a fairly immense topic with many, many branches. And of course there's the underlying joke that in exploring this topic there would be plenty of thought sharing and receiving.

Anyway. Just a thought.