more random thoughts

One of the things that I often wonder is this:

many times when I am doing mundane everyday things,
I come across a thought in my mind

which has great potential for further examination and thinking.

But due to the fact that I am doing something mundane,

but nonetheless important at that time

I always seem to miss it.

Now I am quite sure that these occurrences

are also quite common amongst other people,

and this leads me to ponder as to

how wonderful would it be if one were to somehow

store and latch on to every train of thought

that one ever embarked upon.

I tried doing this once,

and wrote something which I tentatively titled
'Thoughts While Writing'

(seems corny, but fit the bill perfectly)

and was surprised at the variety

and the multitude of thoughts

that I was capable of,

provided I only made a conscious effort

to recognize some of them.

This also leads me to the conclusion

that to be a professional philosopher

(I have used the word professional

because we are all amateur ones,

even if we don't know it),

one needs to have a ready source of easy money.

This is because, by the very definition

of being a philosopher you need to do

copious amounts of undisturbed thinking

(or so it is claimed)

and in such a situation a man

can obviously not be expected

to take care of trifling, menial tasks like earning money.

Now it may be said that you are paid as a philosopher

(by universities etc) but therein lies the catch,

because you are never paid until you have established yourself,

and to do that, as I have just pointed out before, you need money.