I’m sure you’ve heard the popular phrase: “thoughts are things.”
It seemed abstract to me for ages. I’d nod my head in agreement when it was said or when I read it somewhere, but I never really questioned what it meant.
On some level, I understood it. But truth be told, there was an airy-fairy sense to it. Something I grasped conceptually, but not practically.
The part that made sense was simple.
If I look at a chair, for example, someone first thought about what it would be. Then they got to work designing it, turning blueprints into something I now get to sit on.
Yet when I’d think about how that object came to be, I didn’t associate it with a magical creation. On the contrary, it seemed practical.
We have an idea, and then we find a way to bring it to life. What’s the big deal about that?
That’s just it.
So many of us have been conditioned not to see the wonder in what’s already happening around us.
We see a weather forecast predicting rain, and we expect rain.
We feel thirsty, imagine having something to drink, and the next moment we have a glass of water in hand.
These moments feel ordinary because we’ve categorised them that way. But they follow the same pattern: the thought comes first, and the physical follows.
I treated “thoughts are things” as a supernatural mantra, giving it status beyond my reach.
When in fact, everything we can see began as a thought.