Wandering Mind

There are times when the mind wanders into the territories of unknown dimensions and there are also times when it gets trapped in those boundaries. It might be a thought, a moment, a person or a good intricate web of wishful thinking. What makes this wandering happen? What are the triggers?

Is the vacuum felt because of the absence of some particular thing? Or are the lyrics of some random song playing on the radio? Is it the colourful bunch of bangles that the street-vendor is selling or is the grim expression on the face of the person crossing the street? The human mind behaves in funny ways indeed! A complete unrelated set of events can trigger the memory of something relevant and make the mind wander into those streets of contemplations and conclusions. Is it by default or design that such triggers are generated so often in an ordinary human day that the world seems to be so close at one time and yet far at the next second?

Man is a social animal, the most used, abused, misused statement of sociology. If this “social” aspect is to be thought upon then it may give the answer to the above raised questions. But is this the fundamental answer. What makes me relate to random person when I see him/her crossing the road in a zig-zag manner? Is the reason this that I too behave the same in such a situation? The similar reactions/ behaviour in particular circumstances can lead to this relativity and wandering of mind but then when every human being is considered to be unique then from where this similarity emerges.  The social fabric, the external conditioning that a child receives, which is more or less similar in our society despite of the varied differences, is the reason behind similar behaviours. The triggers might vary from individual to individual but since the conditioning have been of similar nature; it can result into similar behaviours.

When society is so powerful, the beliefs, the norms, the rituals so strong then why the human is weak? Men make the society, isn’t it? Weak men cannot make such strong norms and rituals and a strong society? Is the weakness of men camouflaged in this strength that is portrayed? Do these srict norms flaunt the innate inhibitions of human mind? Is this the entire illusion of social fabric and society is a pretentious tactic of humans?