Why - " Notes to myself"

I created this blog to be able to comment in a site which did not accept anonymous users. The blog needed a title. Since I don’t have a gift for originality, I chose this title ‘Notes to myself’ from a book with the same name.
It is one of those books which can change the way we view our lives.It is a collection of discrete thought pieces penned by the author ( Hugh Prather) as he goes through trials and tribulation of life.
The focus of this diary is not on narration of incidents from his life…infact he doesn’t provide any personal detail, except the bare minimum where it is necessary to understand the context. Each thought piece is a truthful portrayal of his mind for a very brief moment. So he notes down how each thought and consequent feelings emerge , criss cross and change his mind from one state to the other – all in one brief moment. And he does this self observation with complete honesty. So there’s no glossing over of petty feelings, no attempt to theorize or conclude, no carefully thought out ‘intelligent’ afterthought.
Rather what you have is an impassive observant second self which catches the original mind trying to suppress some inconvenient thought or aimlessly go round and round in cycles of same thought or trapping himself in some emotion. Most of us do this, some more conscious of it , some less. But the kind of awakened awareness that the author displayed is rare.
And with this awareness comes the joyous realization that our mind can be in our control, that we can stop the mental clutter and aimless chatter if we want to, that we can be happy despite the circumstances and despite the hopeless, irresponsible, fully controlled lives that we may have lived till now – there’s hope for change.