"What is the most resilient parasite?"
"A bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm?"
"An idea."
"Resilient, highly contagious. Once an idea's taken hold in the brain it's almost impossible to eradicate. A person can cover it up, ignore it- but it stays there."
"But surely-to forget...?"
"Information, yes. But an idea? Fully formed, understood? That sticks..."
"In there, somewhere."
An Idea. A thought, conception, or notion. Any conception existing in the mind as a result of mental understanding, awareness, or activity. Its an impression, an opinion, view or belief. A concept developed by the mind. In fact every piece of new or recalled knowledge could be under the same impression as ideas and ideas... ideas are not to be mistaken or misunderstood.
It's not to be, underestimated.
Ideas can come in many different shades and scales of form in shapes and sizes. Just one idea, one factor of belief, could potentially, entirely, replace a well embedded notion in mind with a new one. That depends on how convincingly real that idea would be. In some context, how that one definite or indefinite idea, would dramatically cultivate the decisions we make in life. What makes an idea convincing, or absolute, would be that physically, once an idea is put to motion, would come about to benefit the user in a physical or mental form of way, or mentally, an idea holt to motion, cross relate it to one's intentions and desires to perhaps let's say, fulfilment in fantasising an unspoken fantasy. Meaning if an idea, doesn't matter whether it's in a form of a random thought, or knowledge pertaining to a certain type of action, that's seemingly or bound to benefit or fulfil the user, would eventually become attractive. There has to be some kind of fulfilment in the idea.
Ideas could be seen and defined in many ways. It could be seen and understood as something scary at first, later manifested on to something terrifying, and possibly to something tormenting in a later stage. Or it could be perceived as something unspeakably beautiful even. It depends on the individual's perception. I would usually refer it as to a certain set of character that a person possesses. In a scenario of two different people obtaining the same score in the same Math test, one of which is determined to be more positive(now don't be lead onto the idea that whatever that is not positive is bad, it's just energy)in character than the other, both in which is defined to be the Optimist, and the Pessimist. The Optimist, who is naturally a positively outlooking person, will look at his or her own score and think, "It's okay. I can do better next time." However for the latter, who is deemed to be naturally pessimistic in thought might think, "God! I can't do anything right in life!" In other words, two people of which possess two different senses of perception under a similar circumstance will generate two different output of ideas. We see things, and we define them in our heads.
How one come about an idea is relied upon a few factors. These few factors is what I like to call, base of judgements. It's more like a process. People digests their surroundings through their senses which speaks about certain ideas. With these ideas, with the support of a base for judgement, they create new ideas from old ones. What define one's sense of judgements depends on oneself. It could be anything. Sense of morality, or one's obsessive-compulsive disorder, or even a past-traumatic incident. A certain type of character cultivated from a sense of perception in a given experience would come about to a unique set of ideas.
People overlook the impact, or damage, that one simple or complicated idea, tiny or big, could drastically change, or is cultivating their perception, actions, and the set of ideas they create. Ideas could be life-changing. I like to think it as the same idea like getting hit by a truck, but instead of a physical one, it come in a form of an idea, with the weight of a truck. One idea can irreversibly alter one's life.
Now that's just a concept. In another aspect, ideas are categorised under two columns. One being of those ideas that can be physically extracted, and the other of those ideas that are only meant to stay in your head.
