What someone thinks about a matter, what matters one would consider when faced with a situation, and basically what goes on in the mind of a person when he goes about his day. One's thoughts. Do they define what the person is like? Are they the main concluding analysis to a persona's depth? Are thoughts, the true factor that can give you the biggest and probaly most satisfying picture of one's identity?

Perhaps it is without much provoking when we immediately link 'thoughts' towards personality and character. They seem to be the nucleus of the action. When you commit yourself into a certain action, its immediately considered a high-leveled analysis when one considers what you think when you do it. Why so? Simply because humans are thinking creatures, and would not do an action without going through a thought process in one's mind. Like a two-way gun, thoughts reflect your personality, and personality reflects your thoughts. Perhaps occurances would shape the both of them together. But thoughts are pretty hard to be 'shaped', in the sense that its the way one thinks. If we consider the 'way one thinks' to be shaped rather than the thoughts themselves ( I do not refer to belief framework nor propagandative brainwashings), it would mean that one's identity simply revolves around that factoraid, and from there, the persona is then moulded and shaped. In such a case, it would be quite hard to explain the growth of a person,(His nature and principles) as those are governed by thoughts which are controlled indirectly or perhaps even directly to the circumstances and the situations. If we say thoughts are the bullets,personality the variable treshole board and everything else that affects persona the gun; then the air that carries the bullets, the strength of the trigger, the forces that cause the speeds to sway the gun to different tresholes and the like, and other concernable variables that respect this analogy with logical relevance, would combine in a fuzzy online-game-teamwork fashion, to distill the the identity.

Thoughts, when considered in such a light, do seem rather powerful in explaining identity. But describing it? Does thoughts really tell you who a person is? Many expect that the will know the man the best if he gets to know his mind. In other words, consider his thoughts. But seriously speaking, not all thoughts get on paper and into conversations. Before a notion is even considered to be babbled, one has to weigh and reweigh, study and re-test. Many thoughts are shurgged off. Many ideas discredited into the boundless space beyond time. "Wow, his really a great thinker." --- a study based simply on the after effects of a filtered thought process. Cleaned up, geared nicely and oiled towards a presentable angle. How about the thoughts that are existant in the mind of someone, not taking into care whether or not he expresses it? Would that determine his identity? I shall root out a few forms of basic 'thoughts' one could have first...

Visonaries
Daydreams, movies in head etc. Whether or not they exhasust all the senses (it could be just a audio indulgence), these visionaries are probaly the most common of all thoughts. (well, being a student... I talk with that experience) It could be a spontaneous vision, created by you in some sense, but not with conciousness; a created vision, when you take effort to produce the show; retrospections, when you recall imageries (any sense involved) from the past; futre-spections, where you wonder about the future. Etctera. Etctera. There are defintely more sorts. Thoughts hold themselves prisoner to no one, and they aren't trapped by that notion alone as well.

Gymnastical
When a thought process stretches out a bit to invovle some thinking, relating to sequential, logical, mathematical, zoneseekative ( :p) and the like. Lets catergorise the deep to the pratical in this box.

Sensational
Feel. Don't think. Well, when your 'feeling', you are thinking. Ahem, That style of thinking. That way of processing. May all the mediatative, spirtual, enlighteningative etc. be forced into this ocean. When you think about something and say its gut feeling. When you go about something and assume its like that due to intution. When you 'follow your heart'.

Actionalistical
Upon commiting a certain activity, like say, pouring cereal into a box. Not so much on the split-second reactions (if say, we don't consider them to be thoughts, but rather.... well, reactions) and more on the what to do when this occurs etc. It might be a natural thing, probaly because it is natural and it would be stupid and meaningless to translate to words.

Creative
When you create something. Random bursts of inspirations that weave suddenly together to form a fuzzy idea or a solution to a problem that dices itself in strange periods of time.


ETCTERA. Basicaly.. those are the thoughts, and of course, there are the endless more and others that cannot really be described. 'Each' thought seems to cling quite strongly at showing a person and who he is, together, they probaly equate to a pretty useful potrait.

Now, the kinds of situations thoughts can get themselves into, the sorts of traits that they posses...

Emotions
Think of the Start War's Sith in this. The way they manipulate the force is by having passion, (if I'm not wrong), a strong emotion towards something. Somewhat likewise, thoughts get triggered off plenty of times because of emotions. And they dress up nicely so they can go run a few rounds around the different stadiums of emotion. Complementing the heart to create a musical that raises you up and bring you down. I also refer to the brand of emotions that are not in the party of normals- say the stuff that can't really be described. Emotion-spurred thoughts are seemingly a frequent at wearing 'sensational', but they do invade to other types, many times.

Recurring/Repetative/Re-
The 'songs that are stuck in your head'. When considered at a more serious level, things that bother you again and again, letting you re-live that thought (or a main gist of that thought hidden in another mask) once more. It could be partially out of your own will, but it may be because you just 'can't stop thinking about it'. They drive you crazy. They make you suicidal. They fustrate you. They make your emotions boil. And everyone by now, should get what I mean.

Distractive
Thoughts that sway you away from the thing that you want to keep focused upon. On a less drastic level, homework; a more drastic level, your life. It could be sudden intrusions that rebel against your principles or beliefs. Unwanted memories that you want to stop wasting your attention upon. A matter that you find seriously meaningless and want to stop dwelling on. But yet, they still distract. It can come in a form of a temptation, a change of heart, a newly discovered perception/misconception, a realisation/misconception etc.

Confusion/Panic/Worry/Fear
And the like. When thoughts engulf your senses and fill you up to an uneasy status, letting you hold one of the sort of emotions there. It could be a drowning process as your morale falls with the constant bleakness of the situation, a leap of the heart when you hear certain words being uttered, shock and increased pace as you realise there is only 5 minutes left before the test ends. Thoughts could take on a 'blank' mind as sensationals burst out in fusion with actionalistical creativity in such a case. But besides short term, there also is the long term that is probaly a lot more devastating, when one looks ahead to see the future with uneasiness, when one wonders what he has to do about a certain situation. Yes, everybody defintely knows what I mean.

Delusionaltive
They might not mean an instant grip onto a crutch of falsehoods. The stuff could be true, but one just assumes he partakes the concept without true considerment. They could be for the sake of comfort, or for ego boosting. Its a 'to think that way, because I like how it goes'. It might even transcend to the extent where one knows he is in delusion, but still carries on because he is afraid. To cheat him/herself so he/she won't get 'hurt'.

And of course, theres probaly a whole lot more.

Since everyone goes along with such thoughts passing at some point in his life, the true analysis of 'identity' due to thoughts can be rather hard to fairly evalutate. We could do it in the simplistic sense; the various common-sense approaches.

But the rest of the facades, the other chuncks of thoughts that had went through, that had passed by, that had dwelled on without notice... this part that holds onto so much of the deeper identity, that condenses itself upon the truer mirror above (which might not potray even the fuzzy reflection, and upon the mirror there are masks as well)....

Perhaps such fragments are among the many that have flown out when the glass was broken into. Hopefully flying without much speed and distance, hopefully not hovering towards innocent settlements, hopefully not...

Hurting anyone.

(Like thoughts can do something that serious.)

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