I Think, therefore I Write

Once upon a time, a well-known French philosopher and mathematician, Rene Descartes asked himself, "Who am I?"

We are all taught that it is through our senses that we come to know things. We may hear the rush of waves and smell the salty air around us as the sand seeps between our toes. Hence, we deduce that we are at the beach. Rene Descates believed that given the ability to process such details, he is therefore a 'thinking thing'. Yet he wondered if there were anything that he could possibly know for certain. Could he rely on evidence he had acquired from his senses? He didn't fully trust his senses because he realised how easily our senses can mislead us. Have you ever found yourself sleeping and yet dreamt that you had awakened. You even imagined carrying out a number of actions- thinking all this time that these were happening in reality. As kids, many of us can recall even a bed-wetting episode when we -in a dream- woke up and walked to the bathroom (or so we thought) then got the unpleasant reality that we had been dreaming that we had awakened.

Descartes concluded that there really is nothing he can be sure of. Guess what? One good thing came out of this self-interrogation. The mathematician was confident that his existence is real! For if he is able to think, that alone is proof that he exists. Descartes reasoned that every thought -no matter how unreliable- proved he existed as a thinking thing. This is what gave support to his argument, "I think, therefore I am".

As I coin Decartes words, my personal mantra is "I think, therefore I write". I never set out to become a children's author- it was the fatherest thing on my mind. As I tuck my little girl in bed at nights, I would tell her stories I made up on the spot. I'd laugh out loud at some of the crazy story-ideas that rolled off my lips one sentence at a time and even more amazed at how entertained my daughter was by my stories.

Then one day, it came to me so starkly- "I think, therefore, I write".

My 2nd children's book, Wobble, the Boneless Creature is a favourite for the kids who have read the collection of Children's books and it is satisfying to watch the inquisitive minds of these children, come alive as they learn about the importance of the bones in their bodies.

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