Random Musings

Big Frank has had a few random thoughts lately. Random? Well, unorganized in any sytematic way, but nonethess they are popping up so - here there are. A list:

1. Cliches are thought terminating if they are trotted out in the middle of a conversation, you know, as it were, there you are, etc. However, when you organize them and list then they can be real poetry and enlightening (more to come on this).
2. We all have a real cacophony of voices inside our head. Who's the boss? Come on, which one?
3. Do you have a philosophy of life, or is your life your philosophy?
4. Why is it that "less" is taking over from "few"? Big Frank will make a prediction: in 20 years nobody will even know what "few" means anymore. Does it make any difference? (Ten items or less! Give Big Frank a major break! Fewer breaks will be given, Big Frank is sure; oops - sorry less breaks.)
5. What is the secret that you have that even you don't know?
6. If you could play games all the time - really fun ones - would you want to play reality anymore?
7. If you were truly honest with those you are closest with, would it change your relationship? What is it that you don't want to share? Why?
8. Think of your biggest problem. (OK, got it?) Now, imagine this - it's really not your biggest problem at all.
9. When you are really being rational, what is the end that your being rational towards? Is that a rational construct too, or a product of your emotions/desires?
10. Do you talk to yourself? If so, which self? And which one's talking? And who is watching all this?
11. Who is your real self? Is it a single voice in your head speaking on behalf of the real true you (as you imagine it)? Is it a story you tell yourself about who you are? Is it hidden silent center of you that you are struggling to get to know? If that latter is true, then who is it that is trying get to know that hidden center?
12. Do you tell other people the same stories over and over and over again? What are your favorite ones that you tell all the time? Why?
13. If you could redo your life, would you? Would it make any difference?
14. Are you in control of your life - or struggling like a coconut tossed about at sea?
15. If you were someone else telling you, with what you know about yourself (you are you after all) what to do, would you listen?
16. Think about the secrets that you truly keep to yourself: thought, feelings, actions that you are doing, or are planning on doing (but telling nobody about). OK, now why are they secrets? Would anything change if you shared them? Why do you not share them?