If we counted wasted moments...how many would there be? Here I am again, slowly progressing with this list of school assignments and as I regain focus, I recognize the thoughtless silence I have just escaped, and I wonder...was this a wasted moment I just experienced? Think of all the things great thinkers like Socrates, Plato, Newton, Einstein, and Voltaire accomplished during their lives...did they also have what I term "wasted moments". Perhaps this title gives a misleading description for this experience. What I am referring to are the moments that resemble the seconds of waiting for your computer to process the task you have assigned it, and yet you know the computer doesn't have thoughts...from an external viewpoint, it's a moment of mundane silence as the dial spins pretending that thought is occurring. That's my brain sometimes...I probably look like I'm thinking, and often I am, but sometimes I'm not. Can you tell? Or is the dial always spinning even during silence? Can God hear the things that happen within me when all I hear is silence? How complex a wasted moment can be...was anything really wasted at all?
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