It definitely matters what we think and contemplate upon, for those who direct their thoughts in the general direction of mindless domains or simply let their thoughts roam about without any real purpose behind them aren’t going to be the type of people that are going to progress and make society a better place for their participation in it, but will for a certainty, find themselves having aimed their sights upon something that is way too low and of little purpose. In fact, each of us has been gifted with a free will mind to think the thoughts that we are totally sovereign of, and those who recognize that great power are the very same who are well positioned to do something of merit in their life for themselves as well as for others.
We need to be mindful because so many of us can get distracted through the everyday things that are going on around us, or simply are people that prefer to let themselves go with the flow, without understanding correctly that the purpose of life is to fight against that which is worth fighting against, while also understanding the time and place to uphold that which is worth upholding and in order to do that, we need to be mindful and thus lead lives of purpose or else we will not get to the destination that we need to get to.
In this modern world, there are a multitude of things and activities that can easily get us off track, of which, for those who are thinking we need to recognize that not everything that comes to our mind is something that we need to dwell on or address. That is to say, those who are mindful are able to push aside that which would serve to take their eye off the prize, and therefore to concentrate on that which is worth concentrating upon, and thereby to get done those necessary things, as opposed to getting done what really isn’t necessary or important at all.
In truth, since we can’t think about everything, we ought therefore not to permit our consciousness to wander about without good direction, for when we do, we find that we are no longer making progress, but are at best, merely cycling through the same darn things, again and again, ultimately to not get much beyond the starting line.
It isn’t so much that we are what we think, but that what we think and ponder upon creates the domain that we operate within. So then, it is definitely true that what is foremost in our mind and what we therefore concentrate our greatest efforts on, defines what we are all about, and those who waste such in the pursuit of that which isn’t worth pursuing, or mindlessly wander about without any rhyme or reason, are the same that desperately need mindfulness, because at the end of the day, those that are not mindful and thereby purpose-driven are the same that are lost, and need mindfulness to have any realistic hope to get back on the only path that will bring them both peace as well as enlightenment.