Gone mouldy

I've decided to permenently shut down my other, old blog, and shift its contents to this one. So I'll move one topic at a time. The thing about my other blog is that I tend to be a bit long winded. Here's story number one.

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Nope. I'm not talking about bread here or process of making cheese. It's just that I feel that my brains have gone soft. This is bad. I mean I use to be able to think fast on my feet and able to give a logical debate of a particular subject to a good level. I look back on my blog and I find myself not able to pour out phylosophical ideas and more concrete ones as I use to. Could it be that my brains have gone soft through out the years? Parkinson disease comes into mind.

Edward De Bono and his lateral thinking is very, very good. Did I say very good? Did I say that? I'm understating the master of lateral thinking with my limited vocabulary. I mean, his words of wisdom gave me something to ponder on, something to think.





This picture is taken from google when I went searching for a picture regarding debate. I like this picture.

Anyway, I believe that my problem with thinking is, not that I lost the ability to think but, I don't have someone to challenge me and forces me to think. I'm in the academic field but a very technical field to be specific. Calculating IP subnets, defining and designing Frame Relay PVC paths, configuring OSPF running routers and the likes are my field and there is no one else to push me. Previously I know someone who calls me up for a debate. She calls me and said, "I'm bored, let's find something to argue". She and I would argue over anything from "how people believes that there is heaven but no one believes that they would go to hell?" to "what do you thnk about that commercial". I hate to admit it, but I enjoy a good argument, not because I do win some of the debates but I enjoy the challenge.

It seems that I've lost that edge. I'm trying to find it again. Pushing my mind to maximum of MY capability. I've lost it, definately. I guess I could improve my "brain power" by reading but its like trying to read on "how to swim" and be very detail about it, unless you do get yourself in water you won't be able to test your concepts. Proof of concepts. I could read other stuff by other people that are arguing and get their ideas but you would only get only get from one person's perspective. The only way to counter that is to read many other people's ideas from many other books, articles, etc. Blog included. Hmmm.... by reading what I'm writing here, I think I'll have to go back to basics. Sigh. I guess I have to shorten by time playing Command and Conquer on-line. I'm sure it would be well worth it.

Problem with people, as Edward De Bono believes, is that these people have developed their own perspectives on certain things and able to find good arguments to defend their perspectives. Herein lies the problem, their minds are then accustomed to defend the perspective and would not grow from there. These people would carry on their values/perspective till their dying day. Then the younger generations comes into life with their own but new fresh, ideas/thinking and would challenge or show that there is another view to the same point. There is another possibility. The older folks would then disagree and thus creating a cycle where the younger would carry their views and happily defends that view till a new generation emerges.

So is there a possibility that I may be suffering from that? Stuck in my perspective that I don't know how to steer my view points or to accept other view points? Perhaps my brains HAVE gone soft and mold begins to appear...slowly. Now I have to find some way to brush my spots clean and start thinking again. I have to, lest I stay and be stunted till my dying days. So till next time, Adios.