Ok so this is my first blog ever so here i go.....

I was thinking today "The pen is mightier than the sword" wierd I know, it led me to think about our minds and I found the more I thought about it the deeper I found myself thinking that ultimately it is our minds that are the weapon, for good or evil. It is the pen and sword that are merely tools of the mind... A means to an end....

I know it is obvious when you stop and think about it, so I stopped... I thought...

It's not the ink from pen or click of keys that decides a poets word's , The pen, the keyboard is just the tool. Yet for those words to exist the process is amazing. First a topic or even a few words that spin and twist to form a sonnet, make a rhyme. Then dependant on the writer the message is sent from brain transformed to physical action, mind to arm, from arm to wrist, wrist to paper and so on. Until "Dependant on person" ie. First draft, changes or complete restructure the end result is achieved, A poem for a loved one or friend or words writen that will never be read, feelings that somehow become more real if you write them down, yet we know where it started. In our minds. I explain it this way so an image forms in your mind of the processes of each thought, feeling and action, I think it will help throught my blog. I tried to relate it to cause and effect with variable conditions but why the cause? Why that initial thought? Was it by deliberate choice or subconsious? Anyway...

"The sword" This tool a weapon can strike fear into ones enemy yet liberate them at the same time, A soldier may kill for duty or pleasure and consider it just a job or even his purpose in life. Yet is it not the sword that a lone man stands with, Defending himself and his family from certain death, slavery or worse. Is this instinct, love, heroics or stupity? The sword can strike for good, for love, In this is the sword mightier than the pen? But why not sign a treaty? Did someone not cross the t's and dot the i's when they passed a law formed a constitution. It was the mind or collective minds that decided our fate for good or evil, The soldiers, the innocent, the humanity just a tool. It was the mind that squeezed the trigger in the end, for it will be the mind that sends the message the think, move and feel. He may do this without remorse 'a true soldier' yet I doubt it. It will be the mind that streaks his cheek with a tear, his arms that hold the fallen, his feelings that deciper right from wrong, leave him tall and proud or have him curled in a ball screaming "I want to go home, What have i done" His body, his gun was just the tool. the means to an end...

We can say I feel it in my heart, I love you with all my heart. Yet are those not just messages from the brain, feelings that can only come from our minds? Is not the heart just a muscle an engine to drive the body, the keys to start it is in our mind, the accelerater, the brakes, the steering wheel, there all there too. Even if we need a service it's our mind that sends the message to white blood cell's for infection or organs to repair themselves. We think we have control, I assure you we do not! When we feel a loved ones touch or butterflies in our stomach are we feeling or thinking? The mind can be sooooo beautiful! When the breeze touches our skin sending shivers up our spine, did we feel it first or are we just feeling what our minds tell us too? If we were all the same devoid of personality, would this be a perfect world? would free will exist? would sunshine be warm? Could we fall in love? Would we even have a name? Would colour exist? Would we ever be happy ever be sad? Could we ever find a partner? I think not.. Again the mind is beautiful!

I think our mind evolve's us constantly and i'm thankful for this. If our mind did not learn would we forever crawl and not walk? We walk then we run, we jump and we climb, we even fly and travel through space. Would we forget how to breath? Could we learn how to talk? If we are in a comba, if we are struck with disease, paralyzed, brain damaged..apologize for this.. Our mind is still active! We could still be in love, still feel the caress of a lover, hear the lyrics of song, Watch the sunrise and sunset, break someone heart or have our own broken, cry tears of joy, cry tears of pain, feel pain, feel love.

I'm rambling now.... I could write for hours and only scratch the surface... Apologize for the grammar :) A first draft that I got carried away with and somewhat lost myself along the way..
It is our mind that controls everything for good or evil, pen and sword... Our mind is amazing...
So if you read this then all i ask is that you stop and think???

B.