Why is it important to explore our minds?
By. Daniel Henderson

   Why should we expose ourselves to new ideas; new ways? If there was ever a lesson I have learned: The abstract is the glue of our minds. It cements the blocks of raw information into a structure that we are as humans and as people.
The abstract is the hallway between doors in the corridors of our mind. It connects, it divides, it creates. It is what gives meaning, emotion, passion if you will. How and why could someone live without the abstract?
We do every day
Every mindless ride to work.
Every time we submerge in the actual world, we neglect the abstract a little more until one day we have a pattern; a routine. We no longer wander the corridors of our mind. We no longer question our impulses. We no longer stop; no longer create. We separate ourselves. We become a number, a statistic.
   Ah here's where you have probably scrolled to, not because this is meaningful, but because there are numbers below. Look at them. They caught your eye didn't they? You noticed them before you even read this because they are solid, they make you feel comfortable. They give you the answers. But didn't we create them?
When was the last time I was amazed?
If you ask yourself this question, or rather if you have to ask yourself this question, here is my advice to you: Examine your mind. Explore. Expose yourself to new ideas. Read. Watch. See. Imagine.

I find infinite amusement in pretending, even though I am not allowed to do so at my age. Imagine the trees are closing down on you on your walk to work/class. Imagine the hordes of people around you on your walk are zombies, running toward you with an insatiable need to feast. Imagine the earth is the moon. See yourself as a character in a movie. Listen to music that completes the part.
The goal is to create, and once you create, once you turn your mind into a playground, then you begin to see yourself in third person.
You begin to see yourself being your environment, being whatever everyone else is. Trying to have the best and most expensive things and being trapped in by what should liberate us.
Be yourself. Be something new every day. Be as Socrates. Have infinite knowledge, but don't try to know everything.