Thinking!!!!!!!

Excerpt from the ATLAS SHRUGGED by AYN RAND...there are so many passages worth quoting but lethargy prevented me from quoting anything previously...i quote this as I am reading...

"Thinking is man's only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the source of all his evils, is that nameless act which all of u practice, but struggle never to admit: the act of blanking out, the willful suspension of one's consciousness, the refusal to think-not blindness, but the refusal to see; not ignorance, but the refusal to know. It is the act of unfocusing your mind and inducing an inner fog to escape the respoinsibility of judgement-on the unstated premise that a thing will not exist if only you refuse to identify it, that A will not be A so long as you do not pronounce the verdict 'It is'. Non-thinking is an act of annihilation, a wish to negate existence, an attempt to wipe out reality. But existence exists; reality is not to be wiped out, it will merely wipe out the wiper. By refusing to say 'It Is', you are refusing to say 'I am'. By suspending your judgement you are negating your person. When a man declares: 'Who am I to know?'--he is declaring; 'who am I to live?'.."

"This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-exixtence, A or non-A, entity or zero."

Whuz standards?????

Itz been some time coming...I have tried writin sumthin but have alwayz ended up feeling miserable abt the topic i wanted to write...So finally one of my friends insisted dat i write watever da case may be, i sit down to pen my thots...Thankz Sushil....The topic has been haunting me for quite some time now....are v living for ourselves or sumone elz sake...true..there are certain norms to be fulfilled in a "SOCIETY" n all but arnt v stretching ourselves a bit too much ..We are to be judged by what we do and what we don't and not by what OTHERS DO and wat OTHERS DONT...This malaise is not only existent in our professional lives but sadly in our private lives tooo...who sets the standards and who judges them...It ultimately lies in the hands of us to define what are the standards and what principles we stand by...and while judging arent we supposed to consider the viewpoint of the person alone in question,and then decide for ourselves whether dat is right or wrong... unfortunately we dont and thus are blinded by the predujices that have been fed into our system...by system i mean family,friends,media...we hardly think about these things and consider them a waste of time...yet it is so important to know people and what prompts them to do certain things, but noo...we live in a state of static equlibrium where our thoughts and feelings take a backseat... We just go on living life as if it doesnt matter as to how we live it...Think...!!!!!!...I Go onnn!!!!