I think, therefore I am. I think...

How quickly do you thoughts move from one topic to the next?
This morning on the bus I was wondering what I was thinking about (playing capoeira) and how on earth I managed to get there from what I was originally thinking (hey, the people behind me are speaking in German!).
How did I get there? At first I recognised the German and was listening to them help each other to string a sentence of English together. Then I was thinking about how cool German accents sound and wished I hadn't given up on German after fourth form when both German and French clashed with maths for the next year's subjects. Then... I was thinking about going overseas later on this year and meeting French or German people and possibly getting them to teach me better German. I was thinking, if I'm hanging around them I'd pick up some interesting vocab, different vocab from each different person I met. This, in my opinion, was much like how in capoeira class you learn a whole lot more when you are playing against different people. Like how one guy gave me some ideas on how to catch the other person off guard rather than just doing a defensive move in response to their attacking move. Each different person I play against will have different strategies and ideas so the more people I play against, the more I will learn and improve my own capoeira as well as picking up nifty moves. This revelation will not, however, inspire me to attend the Friday night rodas any time soon. I'm way too scared to!
My thoughts then moved to Monday night's capoeira class and how I could have done much better if I hadn't been so tired and had remembered my contact lenses.
All of this when I was meant to be doing a reading for an anthro 219 assignment! On the comodification of music too, joy!

Thought progression is an interesting thing but it's hard to monitor because if you think about how your thoughts are progressing then it's not very natural, is it? If you're constantly wondering what you'll think next, it's more forced.