Toxic thoughts, truth torn, tattered

Have you ever wished you could read other's thoughts? Wouldn't that be similar to posessing the ultimate weapon? Or should I say that would be the greatest power one could own? You would always be able to act the right way (when I say right I mean the way that would let you achieve what you want), find out people's weaknesses, their secrets, their plan of action.

You would notice that every one of the possibilities above ultimately leads to the owner's benefit. Such is the way, the brain works. Think of how it would be beneficial to you and then the rest of the world. It would really make that person a very powerful and yet lonely person :) Thing is you really don't want to know what's going on in the other person's head. Nothing good ever comes of it. How do I claim to know this? I have obviously never had the power to do so. There have been situations where I have been able to predict what the person would do based on the fact that I knew these people very well. But then everyone can do that right? I came to the conclusion that its good to let thoughts be personal and no good would come if every this privacy is breached, by just studying my own thoughts.

The brain is a bad bad place. You can create and destroy lives, relationships, objects, careers, course of the future. Anything you want. I have looked in to my thoughts, some of them are good, some genuine, some nothing more than pretentious goodness, some ugly and some pure evil. Ever heard the term, "feeling naked"? Well thats how you would feel. If your thoughts were breached upon. I have actually loathed myself at some of my thoughts. Asked myself how I could think of such things. Didn't really have a very high opinion about myself during those moments of self analysis.

Now imagine how the people, about whom I have had these thoughts, would feel? The thoughts never meant anything, atleast most of them. They were just random, fleeting thoughts. But what were to happen if the person I was thinking about read my thoughts at that very instant? What would happen if the person was my loved one? Life would have been so much more complicated and pathetic for him. What if we reversed the roles. The person was my loved one and I read those awful thoughts about me. I would be devastated. Maybe I would end up doing something that would totally destroy the whole situation and the future involving the two of us. All because I happened to catch a random thought.

Not a pretty scene. Remember the dialogue from Spiderman, with great power comes great responsibilities. Its absolutely true. Unfortunately, great powers always come to those who deserves them the least. TAKE THEM AWAY!