Aimless wandering : the bane of our time

Memories are just circuits in our brains that are associated with emotions and feelings.
When we indulge into aimless wandering, we are either rehashing our past, fretting about the future, or exploring imaginary scenarios that are the figments of our wild imagination.
This aimless drifting causes us to have thoughts that turn into emotions, that cause us to have certain moods and behave in ways that are congruent with these initial thoughts.
We often have negative thoughts that are not ours. We get them through our moody neighbors, family members or from our disgruntled co-workers.
We unconsciously appropriate them and attribute them to ourselves.
This could affect our well-being and make us bitter and dejected, even when everything in our lives seems to be going well.
Our brain is a highly rationalizing machine, it is easy for it to make up reasons as to why we feel tired, lazy, angry or dejected.

Our random thoughts are an amalgamation of images, sounds, scenes, both real and imagined. They have nothing to do with us or with our lives. 

The issue is that we arrogate them and make them our own, basing our decisions and actions on these inaccurate fabrications of the imagination.

Living though our bodies and using our brain only when it is needed is the key to releasing ourselves from the net of our fertile, wild imagination.