Musing on Musing

"Hmm",

The sound that I typically associate with the word "Musing". Its literal definition of course means:

"to think about something carefully and for a long time" - Cambridge Online Dictionary

However, when my good friend Simon suggested that I should put some "general musings about life" into my blog, it set me, if you don't mind the statement, musing on the nature of musing itself. For example, I find it amazing the amount of information our senses capture at one time, and that it is all processed almost instantly, but it still takes the human brain extensive thought, or musing, on certain subjects to be fully understood. By the literal definition, people muse all the time (e.g. deciding whether to date someone, whether they prefer Chinese or Indian food, or how they should get their hair cut) but i think the word "Muse" should have something of higher quality attached to it. I'd like to believe I live by the spirit of the law, not the letter, and musing to me suggests something more, something profound, that brings new meaning to ordinary things. The example given by the Online Dictionary I used was thus:

"I began to muse about/on the possibility of starting my own business." - Cambridge Online Dictionary

However, for my own romantic ideals to be realised, I would have made it something more along the lines of:

"I began to muse about/on the possibility of starting my own business, which led me to think about my personal goals as a person and whether I had my priorities sorted in such a way as to allow me to live the life that I have been given (which for all I know could be the only chance I get) to the fullest degree possible" - Conor's Wishful Thinking and Rambling Dictionary of Spelling and Grammatical Errors

However, I think its a bit difficult to argue with the Dictionary, so I might leave this point here. I just wanted to point out the strange, and most definitely individual, definition certain words have to certain people.

Also, Muse are an amazing band live.

Conor

p.s. A couple of weeks ago I had 13 pancakes for breakfast, and last weekend i spent in excess of 2 1/2 hours in a hot tub in one go.