What Does It Mean To Think

What does it mean to think to have thoughts to have ideas and opinions to have likes and dislikes to trust and to distrust to dream, to contemplate, to analyse to plan, to postpone to love, to hate some thoughts remain inside some thoughts are spoken out loud what is it this intangible that we call thought this thing called thinking who or what is doing it who or what decides the topic the stance, the angle we are the thinkers but we are seated back there in the carriage mere passengers we are also up front in the caboose shovelling the coal hand on the throttle, hand on the brake doing the driving we are both passenger and driver my immediate thought is how can that be I have come to realise that it can be simply because it can and is that at least is my thought on the subject that is what I think I do however harbour this thought what does it all mean I think that I have thought enough all this thinking has made me weary I will now go and lie down and let both the passenger in the carriage and driver in the caboose guide my thoughts where they must and I will dutifully follow alack and alas what does it mean to think.