Thread: Taking Life For Granted

It never ceases to amaze me how people can walk down the block every day and not look around them in amazement.

We rush through our lives, never stopping for a second to think about how incredible it is that you actually have the ability to smell roses, let alone that roses actually exist! We run from job to job, from class to class, as though it's a completely ordinary, random, terrible day. Why is it so rare that someone will open their eyes?

Look at the screen in front of you. Plastic, metal, and electricity, all working together to magically transport you across the globe. Look at the tiny squiggles and lines and dots, that somehow are understood as actually meaning something. Somebody invented those letters. Somebody, somewhere, sat down and decided that the letter S should sound like 'essssss', and that it should look like thiSSSSS.

Somebody, somewhere, for whatever reason, invented equations. Somebody, somewhere, figured out how to get the circumference of a circle. Somebody, somewhere, was the very first person to log on to the internet.

Fascinating, yet nobody cares.

Look around you.

Somebody built that wall. Somebody put up that wall paper, or splattered on that paint. Somebody, somewhere, laid down that floor. Somebody planted that tree. Somebody bought that car. Somebody with a life, a family, his own personal religion, and a whole host of memories.

It's simply amazing to me how a human came up with something so complex as language, how over time, people learned to communicate using a series of sounds and grunts that we use every single day without giving it a second thought.

And yet we kill ourselves over who gets the oil, never wondering where the oil actually came from. We boggle our brains with the mysteries of the universe instead of looking at our own hands and seeing the infinite possibility they contain.

It has been proved scientifically that the brain has more possibilities of connections than there are stars in the universe. What do we do with that infinite possibility? We guzzle down booze, we smoke weed, we start wars. Instead of seeing the beauty of the human being, and the beauty of friendship, we only see the money. The mere slips of paper that make us go crazy.

What makes you look at this smiley:
:lo:
and make you think that it represents laughter, and look at this one:

and think it represents sadness? They are, after all, pixels on a screen. Yet your brain interprets them. Amazing.

Lightly press on the sides of your eyes, through your eyelids. Watch your vision split into two. Do you see how much we depend on our senses every day, but never really notice them until we go blind? Until we get a stuffy nose? Do you ever stop to wonder exactly what makes up a sensation of pain? Do you ever wonder why exactly you cannot describe it?

Maybe. And then you go on with your lives.

Perhaps if we looked at the billions of tiny miracles around us, we would better be able to appreciate the bigger miracles around us.

You may now return to your life. Go ahead. X out of this screen, and go back to whatever it is you were doing before you read this. But never forget how amazing it is that they chose an X for that little button at the top of the screen, and not a G.

I believe the general sentiments from shit like 'Live for today' and that are this:

You may or may not get another life, but you don't know, so you should assume this is all you get. Tell your loved ones they're exactly that, because any day they could get hit by a bus or whatever and you'll regret it like hell. You shouldn't waste your time in life worrying about assholes, or idiots, or crying or arguing, you should spend all of it being happy, make the most of every day because you never know when you're gonna run out of days, and looking at the average lifespan and how things change on this planet, we have a short, short life.

Teh end.