Hello and welcome back to Sierra's Weekly Sayings! This week we will talking talking about rational and irrational elements. We are almost finished with the book Notes From Underground where our narrator believes that human existence is often about the internal battle we wage each and every day between rational and irrational thoughts and actions, or elements. I personally do not fully agree with this. Human existence is so much more then he says it is. People have to deal with internal struggles everyday, it is part of being human, but it shouldn't have to come to the point where these are all that you think about. Human's have so much potential to do good in the world but people's minds use the irrational elements to overthrow and take over their peaceful actions and ideas. I do not think that rational is more powerful then irrational or vise versa. I do think that irrational thoughts lead to more experiences and they teach us more then the rational thoughts. They are both equal in my eyes. I know that I do not spend my time everyday thinking about my internal struggles. I never have irrational thoughts unless it is something silly like I'm going to drop out of school and hit the road or something idiotic like that. But that is my mind. Everyone has their own rational and irrational elements that help make that person who they are. Each persons thoughts are unique in some way. Whether or not you let those rational and irrational elements take over your mind, just know that we are on this earth to do more then just let our thoughts consume us. We take these thoughts and we will make something positive out of it. I know I have already started one day at a time.
To end this blog post,
"But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences."
- Alan Lightman
Thank you for reading!