Thought Life

They say that ideas matter.  Ideas influence behavior.  Ideas have an impact.  It was something that people said to him, but he never really understood.

He was a bright kid growing up.  Advanced math, AP classes, reasonably good SAT scores and a good college.  But his thought life was pretty modest.  He worked hard in school.  He worked hard earning some extra spending money.  He tried to impress girls (but never in the right ways).  None of that really required depth to his thinking about ideas.  Ideas that somehow mattered.  Not to him yet.

While he laid in bed over the last three months, he was pretty sure he knew what people meant now.  He knew many things.  And he knew that the future laid out in his mind was going to carry him through the rest of his life.  Nothing like a long convalescence to clarify one's thinking.  Ideas mattered to him now.  And he knew just how to make his mark on the world.