Rambles On

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

James Earl Jones

Hi all. Thanks for taking the time to visit. I was looking at my Thesaurus this morning and it struck me, what does rambling means, anyway? Is there any other word for it? Then I thought, well, heck, I know the meaning already, so why look? Of course, curiosity got the better of me and I look.. HELLO! Was I shocked! Here’s some of what I found.
Rambling (adj) = deviating, digressing, off-centre, out of orbit, errant, wandering, roving footloose, traveling, undirected, unguided, random, erratic – there are more (this is from two words in one number, mind you).
I would like to think that my ramblings are the result of an idle mind. When the mind is idle, it tends to wander. Randomly, aimlessly. Worse still during sleepless nights, then it goes into overdrive. Good thoughts, bad thoughts, half-baked ideas, things to do, things I’ve done, past mistakes, hopes, dreams for the future, everything crashing in.
But a wandering mind is not necessarily a bad thing. It can be good sometimes. I managed to come up with a solution to some of my problems during one of these periods. Although one tends to be cranky the next morning for lack of sleep. My mind wanders at the oddest of times. In a middle of a sentence, which causes me to lose my train of thought. Mostly during meetings, when I'm driving or when my boss yells at me. But sometimes it wanders during sojourn with friends. They would be speaking and I would be looking at them and thinking of something elase entirely. Strange how our minds work, isn't it?