Hawking

Is lying supine thinking—just thinking…..pondering…..contemplating…..assessing…..nothing else!—an innate waste of time?  Must one be physically or intellectually active to justify one’s earthly existence and in the process avoid societal scorn? I don’t know for certain, but I suppose not. Genius and orthodoxy are not compatible and never have been.  All novel, groundbreaking ideas irrefutably originate in the mind first, not when one is feverishly washing the car or shopping for groceries or punching a timeclock as you struggle mightily to earn a regular bi-weekly paycheck. Unimpeded thinking is the seed for inspiration.  To wit, do you REALLY think theoretical physicist extraordinaire Stephen Hawking would have realized his full genius if he had been physically whole and thus fully capable of pursuing any number of bodily endeavors?  Of course not!  Like it or not, Hawking had all that free time on his hands to just think and conjecture, and the remarkable profundities that came gushing out of his brain as a direct result of his unencumbered musings were downright astonishing. Thinking while doing nothing else has acquired a bad reputation for perpetuity and is commonly derided as a sanctuary for the slackards and bohemians and silver-spooners of the world.  Yet it’s undeserving of this putrid reputation.  Absolutely. Actions are a crucial part of any real-life equation, unquestionably, but nonstop actions sans a reasonable amount of forethought are intrinsically foolish and emblematic of beautiful time wasted.