In normal terms, a person is complimented for being thoughtful if he or she does a good gesture, says a kind word or even shows up. Perhaps the origin of that expression that "you are so thoughtful" supposes that there was a thought behind that kind action. On the same lines, a person who makes a reckless or inappropriate comment is chided for being "thoughtless". In both cases, thought is given a prime place of honor, driving actions and words.But what drives thoughts? What triggers them in the first place? Is there is a motive? Does the mind derive some pleasure from those compliments? The memory of the nice feelings motivate these actions? And what happens when there is no positive response to those good deeds, not once but repeatedly. Then does the mind become stoic and continue to perform those good deeds? Or, it stops them all together? If there is pleasure from performing a supposedly good or unselfish deed, then is it really unselfish?
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