World or My World?

If the topics I am choosing of late, give an impression that I am totally sucked up by the things around including promotional calls from tele marketers, and I am so pissed off that I pick the next call with gun in the other hand, then this all may not be true literally, however a very intelligent and accurate guess.

But, coming back to the topic. How do we define "World" for us. What all is there? How do we measure the vastness of it?

I wake up in the morning, and see my family, work with colleagues in the office for the major part of the day, then watch TV/read paper in the evening, have a walk in the neighborhood and meet the neighbors. Some days, call my family, less often talk to some relatives. Sometimes talk to friends, get in touch via mails. Sometime read some books and stuff on Internet.

If all this this is giving an impression that my routine is rotten and smells mediocrity like it smells after gulping garlic soup, and I seriously need to whip it up to catch up with something like Tom Cruise social and private life, that its not a suggestion but a serious digression for the topic, and I am not considering this for the current five year plan.

But the intention of revealing the boring details of my routine to define "My World" which is comprised of "People, Events, Thoughts", I interact with in my life. So I tried to reverse engineer this all to sum up and come up with, what comprises "My World". The reason I am coining this term "My World", is basically that subset of generic notion of World, which affects me. I mean how does it matter to me that where is "Gibraltar", though it becomes part of "My World", when I read that Anurag Dixit it the richest guy in entire Gibraltar and one of the youngest billionaires in the world. So that's how "My Word" gets affected.

So, to concrete this all.

1. People. Lets say, I interact actively with around 50-100 people (family, friends, relatives, colleagues, occasional meetings, same characters on TV/Newspaper/Internet etc).

Passively I interact with lets say a couple of thousand people, which includes while being on the road, city, markets, and other places. But this is just a passive interaction, like either I honk or get honked by, no formal hi Hello, but nevertheless, its an interaction theoretically, however its impact on "My World" is very very less.

2. Events. Typically there are two classes of events. One that I am directly involved with, which also includes the events which gets triggered by interaction with the people also. The other set of events are one which I come to know by Media. This is also fairly limited and more importantly its like being governed by somebody else, i.e. this portion of world is defined by others, not me.

3. Thoughts. Rationally thought is a reaction of Mind to everything we interact with. Like all journeys, this journey of Mind, if is ephemeral and do not survive enough to get consolidate enough to evolve into Thinking, that cannot be possibly be terms as Thought. So practically everything our Mind does not a Thought. But each action has the potential to evolve into a thought. E.g. seeing a stranger on the road, does not cause us think anything about him/her or us, if he/she is normal in general ways, but we do apply our mind. But if we see something little special (subjective), we spend some more mind cycles on this. There are chances the even this interest will fade out. But There can also be some completely thoughtful experiences also. Likewise, most of actions of our Mind do not consolidate, and its more like waves in pool crashing into each other.

So, thought is a consolidated outcome of application of mind on the people/events/thoughts we interact with. So this is a derived product. We can also stimulate our thought process by reading stuff or sometimes discussing etc. We can also argue that since all interaction leads to some kind of thought process, so eventually its the thoughts that are main essence of "My World".

Vastness -

First thing , I believe that the vastness of "My World", is dynamic. It keeps changing. Sometimes new people/event/thoughts become part of it, and some get obsolete and hence deprecated.

But since this phenomenon of shrinking or expanding is stimulated by the three things I have mentioned earlier, so we can deduce this notion of vastness of "My World" by studying the contributing parameters.

Since the ensemble of people we normally interact remains similar, so more and triggers from this same stimulus does not contribute to variation of vastness in my space.

The events, in general are out of our control thus, depending upon the situations, it follows a random pattern. However as I have mentioned, events can be triggered from interaction with people/things. And secondly we can (in fact we most of the times) apply filter to pick the events selectively. E.g while reading some stuff or watching something on TV, we come across with something, but we skip something and give weight to others. So this process is dependent upon our interests also.

Now the third, and most important contributor, Thoughts. The notion of vastness is not actually applicable much to this facet . However since the thought process is an continual ongoing process which get various kicks from others things we interact with and also how much introspection we do. So the real transformations for thoughts is not related to vastness but more related to process of consolidation and refinement.

Now the points is, since our window of people we actively interact remains stagnant, the set of events we adapt/pick is subjected to our inclinations and outside inputs, then the last resort which stimulates our thought process is what we read, think.

Since the life in general when becomes monotonous, it resembles like a car despite driven at top speed but without breaks and with similar scenery outside, thus leading to stagnation of evolution of "My World". This monotony is not absence of motion but absence of progress.

The proof of the stagnation is that account of the years gone by is measured in terms of the things which hardly makes a difference in the long run, e.g bought new car, bought new house, got promotion, got married blah blah. I mean these are not the things we live for. This is our irony that we do not substantial association of objects in our world with the time. We try to first make unimportant things important and continue to feed on them, thus helping us to avoid the realization of this very stagnation.

So to finally conclude, We generally do not care about "World", but more about "My World". Thus irrespective of what is happening theoretically around, we are affected by what is touching "My World".

And lastly most ironical is "My World", has become stagnant. Its an impasse, its a pregnant proposition which is turning blind and deaf to potential things around it.

I am thinking on second part of this. If this stagnation is there, how to break it.