  This is actually kinda funny. I must have had a "brilliant idea" for a post, because this title was saved as a draft with nothing written besides the title. Now, did I actually think that I was going to remember what I wanted to write without even giving myself a hint!?
However the old Magnificent Brain (to borrow from Clifford B. Hicks books about Alvin Fernald)has thought of something to write after all. I know you are thrilled. Here it is: What happens to those brilliant ideas which come into one's mind when the body is about to drift off to sleep? I have them all the time. I mean, they are the ones which would make me rich and famous, you know? Somehow, though, I am not rich or famous. So, what *does* happen to those ideas? Well, my theory is this. Once you think your brilliant idea, you have to trap it on a piece of paper or it will simply flutter on out into the world and go into someone else's thoughts and become their brilliant idea. Yours no longer. See? You only have a small window of opportunity, before the idea gods take it back and give it to someone else anyway. Sometimes, I think they make mistakes. Like when you think of a fabulous new product that humankind cannot live without and you are so excited that you can't think straight. Then, the next day while you are thumbing through a magazine, you see the product in an exciting new product list.
Now why on earth did the idea gods give you the idea *AFTER* it was already produced???! Even if you trap the idea on a slip of paper, you have limited time in which to bring it to fruition (if it really is a good idea anyway). Otherwise, they just go ahead and let someone else have it. This can suck, but we shouldn't be stingy. So there you have it. Cheers. 
