Things People Don't Normally Think About

 

Things we take for granted and Things we don’t normally think about

Couple quick questions:

-          Who cuts the grass on highways? That’s a lot of grass. Obviously the state, but I-95 goes a long way.  

-          Have you ever met a spy or someone who works for the CIA, or some intelligence agency? Would we know if we did?

-          Do the Men in Black exist? Was the movie a documentary? Lol we would have been nueralyzed. lol

-          Why hasn’t the food microwave in Spy Kids been invented yet?

-          Do people really eat at Arby’s? lol

-          In an alternate unaversive maybe Toyota Corolla’s could be the fancy car? (I drive a corolla s)

-          Why did we stop dueling each other like in the cowboy days?

-          Why aren’t corndogs more commercial? Why can’t I go to a restaurant and order one without judgement? Corn dogs are amazing, but I can only get them at fairs. Lol

-          Why isn’t a sports team named “The Jackals” ?

-          Have you ever seen anyone take a shower in the rain? With soap and everything?

-          What is worse growing up watching Barney (which I did) or watching SpongeBob? Barney was the shit and SpongeBob can get a little grown upy.

 

1.      Indoor Plumbing – seriously how great is it that anytime and pretty much anywhere you can use a public toilet and toilet paper. I don’t think people realize how often we take for granted indoor plumbing. Think about how much weirderer life would be if we had an outhouse hahahaha. You would be like “Mom! I don’t want to empty the outhouse tonight. It’s your turn.”

 

2.      Space – yeahhhhhh, space is a scary thing. We don’t normally think about it. Does it stop? Is it just infinite space? If it is infinite space well then there must be other solar systems, right? What is scarier the fact that we only 2% of the ocean (or whatever it is) or the fact that we revolve around a star with 8 other planets but for some reason we can’t live on those planets and space just keeps goingggggggggggg?

 

3.      Watching Sports – I don’t think we fully appreciate how awesome it is that we can watch any baseball, basketball, or football game whenever we want. If you wanted to see Babe Ruth hit a homerun back in the day, you pretty much had to be there. Now, I can go on MLB.com and look up Mike Trout’s highlights from last night. Unfortunately, the commercialization of sports has taken away from the authenticity of the sport. Watching Mike Trout in person is different than TV. The legends of Mickey Mantle hitting a ball 600 feet would never happen today and it is kind of sad.

 

4.      The Beach (For Floridians) – Our state is very narrow compared to almost every state. Because the beach is always there and usually a close drive away we don’t appreciate it as much. There are people who have never seen the beach which is mind blowing to me because I complain about the “process” of going to the beach (well you have to leave early, make a cooler, find parking, then when you leave you have all the sand all over you, and your hair is all nasty) haha. But the beach is always there and never too far away and it is just glorious.

 

5.      Road Reflectors – If you have ever drove on a highway at night in the middle of nowhere with no lights AND there were not road reflectors I think this topic may resonate with you lol. Driving in the north part of the United States with winding roads and hills, the road reflectors help to show what is coming up just saying. I played summer ball in upstate New York in Utica the summer of 2013. I had the opportunity to get tickets to a red sox game. (It was awesome. That’s a baseball environment, not Miami =/. ) I drove from Boston to Utica in the middle of night from 1 am to 6 am in the pouring rain. When we got off the Boston version of the Florida Turnpike lol, for some reason New York didn’t have road reflectors. By far the scariest driving experience of my life. All 3 of my passengers were asleep (thanks a** holes) so it was me, the rain, the road, and my buddy’s big ass truck (my car is a corolla S). I couldn’t see where I was going it was awful. Since that day I have never taken for granted what road reflectors do! Lol

 

6.      Trees – I know, weird. But trees are pretty cool. We don’t normally talk about them, they are just there. If you google “oldest tree,” one in Sweden comes up as 9,550 years old and one in Methuselah, California comes up as 5,000 years old =O. Could you imagine if trees could talk? Think about how much knowledge we could gain from the Redwoods or some of those moss trees in our back yards. My favorite trees are palm trees. I love those moss trees in Gainesville or on Rollins College’s campus, but palm trees just resemble peacefulness and home for me. I love seeing a big palm tree at the beach or in the outfield of a baseball field.

 

7.       Music in Movies – I am not talking about the obvious music. I am talking about the tones that are supposed to make us feel a certain way in an emotional part or intense part of the movie. Haha. If you ever watch movies, I don’t think we realize how much music is played throughout the film. It makes me laugh if the music is not in a good spot or just doesn’t feel natural. When talking about this all I can think of is “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” when Jason Segal says, “There's no melody, it's just tones. Just dark, ominous tones. The masturbating dog killer is on the loose again. He'll kill the owner, but at least the dogs are happy.” Hahahahahahaha the best thing ever. But he was right, watch a Law and Order SVU or a movie and you will laugh sometimes. It’s awkward to me because there is no music playing in life when getting chased down by a serial killer, but yet again I wouldn’t know. Lol

 

8.       Death –

I’ll leave the most serious topic for last. Nobody likes to think about death. Most people don’t handle death very well. It is extremely sad when someone young dies, that is hard for me to handle sometimes. At the end of the day I am going to die. I could die when I’m 90, I could die walking out of my house today.

Kierkegaard says in "Concluding Scientific Postscript,""I shall certainly attend your party, but I must make an exception for the contingency that a roof tile happens to blow down and kill me; for in that case, I cannot attend." We don't live life saying things like this. Kierkegaard makes a great point.

The sad thing to think about is that my parents are going to die one day, and that will be a hard thing to deal with. But, in order to live life we have to accept that we will die. I definitely don’t want to die before it is my time. I believe most anxiety comes from the fear of death, and the fear of not getting something you really want (job, kids, championship). It is crazy to read stories and watch videos of people who free climb and do dangerous things like that. Those people have completely accepted death. Which is the most interesting thing to me. Below: No harnesses or safety. Just Chalk.

Most people don’t want to talk about dying, but it is going to happen to all of us. So be remembered for helping others, treating others with respect, and doing the ethically and morally right thing to do. And smile. A lot.