Book 2, Ch. 7 --> Deep in thought...

“…and so we should neither stir our bodies or employ our minds; but let our thoughts run adrift, without any direction or design; and suffer the ideas of our minds, like unregarded shadows, to make their appearance there as it happened, without standing to them…( Book 2, chapter 7, Page 81)” The mind and body appears once again, but in a different way. Not in comparing the structures of the body and how they relate to the human mind as in Descartes; but rather just that neither should be disturbed while in thought. Our minds and bodies should be free to think and feel without emotion or our input to interfere. Both should just run their course, and we should remain silent and see what becomes of this. As Locke says, we should suffer from the ideas of our minds. Letting our thoughts linger and be without boundaries could lead to something pleasureful or yet something we end up being ashamed of for even thinking. Ever heard the saying that an idle mind is the worst kind of mind? Normally when in deep thought it is not fun for me to be disturbed, I loose track of whatever it is that I was thinking and most of the time it’s pretty interesting. However, there are those times where I think crazy things and feel I should stop myself from thinking such absurd things, so I then flee from these thoughts and the thoughts that lead me up to this point, knowing not to return to them again. But what if the were no boundaries? What if I never did stop myself from these thoughts? In a way thinking of this makes me a bit nervous…would bad things have happened if I continued out these wretched thoughts to the very last word? What would have become of these thoughts, would they have become actions?...Perhaps Locke knows what it’s like to free his mind, however, I would rather never try and keep my thoughts to a limit…who knows what could become of them..