"Introspection is the self-observation and reporting of conscious inner thoughts, desires and sensations. It is a conscious mental and usually purposive process relying on thinking, reasoning, and examining one's own thoughts, feelings, and, in more spiritual cases, one's soul. It can also be called contemplation of one's self, and is contrasted with extrospection, the observation of things external to one's self. Introspection may be used synonymously with self-reflection and used in a similar way." [Wikipedia]
I like this concept of 'introspection'. I have tried it several times. I am sure everyone does at some point of time. And every time I realized that I 'introspected', after I actually did it. It was never a deliberate effort. It wasn't even so serious as the above definition makes it sound. But, it always helps me tune myself to whatever I should be doing and prevents me from deviating from the desired path.
For me, it is more like a process of evaluating my current actions, their rational value and prioritizing several to-do things. These actions are not only work related/ physical but are often psychological (For instance, focusing/concentrating on something | Not worrying too much about something | Taking something seriously | Just trying to forget something etc.). In fact, majority of the times they are related to my mind.
Well... I guess, I wrote enough on this ... now I will get to the real point of writing this post. I wanted to write this just to have an excuse to use the recent self-portrait that I posted on flickr. (The picture in this post .. I liked it). I was not introspecting at all when it was clicked. :D
Cool. Now, everyone who reads this post, may actually remember that picture while you really are introspecting.
