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The web content is a reflective piece exploring the author's introspective process of organizing and making sense of their thoughts, likened to creating a collage.

Abstract

The article "A Collage of Thoughts" by Jonathan Greene delves into the author's personal method of coping with an overabundance of thoughts. Greene describes a process of extracting thoughts from his mind and laying them out to gain perspective, akin to arranging a collage. This visual and tactile exercise, which he humorously likens to psychosis, serves as a means to categorize and understand his thoughts, questioning their reality and the influence of his imagination. The piece concludes with the realization that this method of organizing thoughts, though they vary in temperature and truthfulness, helps clear mental clutter and enables him to continue thinking clearly.

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  • The author playfully suggests that his method of organizing thoughts could be perceived as psychosis, indicating a self-awareness of the peculiarity of his introspective process.
  • There is a sense of uncertainty about the future, as the author ponders what the world will be like for his children and whether he will be present to witness it.
  • The author expresses a desire for productivity and simplicity in life, as evidenced by his musing over the difficulty of using duvet covers and the monotony of daily meals.
  • He finds comfort and humor in the randomness of thoughts, such as the recurring mention of baby goats and the appeal of a secluded cabin.
  • The author questions the nature of reality as it pertains to his thoughts, wondering if any of them are grounded in reality or merely products of his imagination.
  • Despite the chaos of thoughts, the act of sorting them is described as therapeutic, allowing for mental clarity and the ability to face another day of thinking.

A Collage of Thoughts

A Poem

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My head is so full some days that I like to lay my thoughts out I pull each one from my head and set them on the ground, carefully lining them up so I can see all of them at once Some people might call this a collage but it looks like psychosis to me

What will the world be like when my kids get older and will I be here to see it? Baby goats, baby goats, baby goats A cabin in the middle of

nowhere

My head hurts, am I sick? How many days in a row will we eat the same general meals? Snacks are life I should be more productive Phoebe Waller-Bridge Why are duvet covers the devil? When will this end?

I reach way back into my brain to make sure I get every last one so I can display them, in rows and then move them around to sort them by projected reality I wonder if any of them are real or if my imagination is just a figment of my imagination

Thoughts flood in so quickly even as I am trying to usher them out My floor is full with scraps of me Senseless dioramas of this mind A collage of thoughts some true, some not some cold, some hot But just laying them out like this clears the cobwebs in my head and allows me to think another day

© Jonathan Greene 2020

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