EP003 State of Mind

What is state of mind?
When we try to respond to this question, the answer may at first seem easy. Is it?

We fail to put our finger on a clear definition of the state of mind. We sometimes might get around this failure by using a simple trick we call “adjectives”.

By following this trick, a state of mind can be described as “relaxed”, “loving”, “inattentive”, etc… It gives us the possibility to come up with infinite eidetic variations, without ever getting to the core of all the complexity of the phenomenon.

Sometimes, we try to describe it as the similarities that we share with each other, like an umbrella, a concept of life, an ideal.

Although one’s state of mind might be called “equal” to that of another’s, when both express similar interests or ways of approaching things, it is, deep down, as personal as it can be. The other is always, to some extent, alien.

Still, when we are lost for words, the music begins.