shower thoughts that keep me up at night..
Not gonna lie, the world is kind of funny when you step back and really think about it. In a day and age where everyone takes everything seriously, it's nice to pause and consider the intriguing and sometimes flat-out just weird thoughts that some of us have, but for the most part never share. Some of them are pretty interesting, like the fact that the Earth's population has doubled in the past 50 years, but it took almost 2 million years to get to the 3.7 billion human population in 1971. For every person alive today, there's about 15 dead people throughout all of human history, or that one day in the far future, someone will be the very last person to die of cancer.
Others are honestly just annoying. You normally breathe and blink on autopilot, but now, since I just mentioned it, you're doing both of them manually. Sorry, by the way! But the fact that your tongue is probably touching the top of your mouth right now, but no matter where you put it, it just doesn't feel comfortable. Why do women's pants have fake pockets, but baby's pants have real pockets? These are shower thoughts, whether you have these thoughts in the shower or in the car while you're in traffic or when you're laying in bed for hours at night when you just can't sleep. The location doesn't matter. The Earth is revolving around the Sun, the Sun is revolving around the center of our galaxy, and our galaxy is in a unique orbit with the nearest galaxy to our own, Andromeda.
So with that being said, every single second, the Earth is moving into a new position in space that it has never been before and will never return to again, ever. Your age in years is how many times you've circled the Sun, but your age in months is how many times the Moon has circled you. If you could steal just a second of life from everyone on Earth, you'd be able to survive for nearly another 240 years. But did you know that two people can be born at the same exact time, but because of time zones, have different birthdays? Or even be born in different years? Maybe there is no reason as to why we're here, or at least that's what we're supposed to think. Maybe we're just characters in a universe-sized video game. Sleep could be a save point, which is why we really don't know what happens between the second we fall asleep and when we eventually regain consciousness some hours later.
We also trust our bodies enough to just go unconscious and continue breathing so we don't die. If you think about it, it's actually healthy and recommended to sleep for four months a year. But in order to bring us back, our alarm clocks are made for the sole purpose of being annoying enough to shake humans into consciousness. You might want to smash it and break it, but don't! Every analog clock that no longer works actually shows the time on it where it died. If you order a new clock to be delivered to you and it arrives safely, your time has arrived.
Speaking of being conscious humans, there's a lot that goes on inside our bodies. Your brain makes your heart work, and your heart makes your brain work. It's really quiet, given the things that are going on inside us right now. Like, imagine if you could hear blood gushing through your veins. But if every time we blinked it made a noise... but wait! If everyone on the planet blinked at the same exact time, nobody would be able to tell that it just happened. We have eyes to see, we have a nose to smell, we have ears to hear and hands to feel, and we have a mouth to taste. What is this? Every sense that there is, could there be other senses that we just can't perceive because we don't have the means to? We just haven't evolved to need them because that's not needed on Earth. But what about on other planets? When we colonize Mars, will the far future humans evolve to have different senses than we do today?
Evolution is an interesting idea. The voice inside your head has also evolved with you over time. Do you remember if it was the voice of a kid when you were younger? If you heard your eight-year-old voice today, would you recognize it? Being able to record things digitally is something that we all overlook. We view old writing like "The Wealth of Nations" or the Bible or "The Epic of Gilgamesh," and we see them as some of the most influential pieces of writing to ever exist. But in the year 3000, we'll be able to look back at thousand-year-old videos and recordings just like we view old writing today.
If you're watching this, by the way, hello! But due to deepfakes and people getting really, really good at editing and faking things, there's only going to be a very brief period in human history where videos can actually be trusted as evidence. People see glasses as a sign of intelligence for some reason, even though we all failed a test in order to get them. But you know, Antarctica is probably the smartest and most educated continent on Earth, considering it's populated almost exclusively by scientists. Science has taught us a lot about the universe, about the planet we live on, and even what goes on inside our bodies.
One of the most interesting things that we figured out, though, is that the brain is the only organ that knows it's actually an organ, and on top of that, it actually named itself. But the brain takes time to process information. It's very, very quick, but not instantaneous. So technically your body is living ever-so-slightly in the future. We live in a society, and we set up and made rules that everyone should follow in order to keep things going smoothly, but some of them are just kind of funny. For example, parking tickets are just speeding tickets for going zero miles per hour where it isn't allowed. We have cars that can go upwards of 200 miles an hour, but there's almost nowhere where you're legally allowed to go that fast in them.
In life, people always tell you to stay in school and don't do drugs, but when you get sick, the best advice you get is to be told to do drugs and stay out of school. You never truly appreciate the fact that you can breathe through your nose until you're sick and suddenly lose half the ability to keep yourself alive. Everyone has taken medicine and seen a warning label to not operate heavy machinery while on the use of it. Now they're probably talking about cars and such, but almost everyone immediately thinks of, like, a forklift or a crane or a Caterpillar 797B, king of cranes.
Though have you ever actually seen a crane being built? They kind of just show up out of nowhere and then disappear randomly. Language is just weird. I made a whole video about it a couple of weeks ago. Try to think of another English word that ends in "mt" other than "dreamt." I'm more closely represent the letter "x" as a math variable as opposed to it being a real letter; it's just a fake. See, anyway, "crane" is the 9,618th most used word in the English language, but you really don't need to know that many words to speak English well.
Learning the top 100 words in most languages will usually contain at least 50% of the words you use in everyday conversation. Bring this up to 500 words and you'll get to around 80%. This should allow you to go out in public and order food without an issue. But when you're at a restaurant and you're waiting for a waiter, you become the waiter. On the topic of food, the food also doesn't really go bad; just something else starts eating it before you do. Bacteria!
Also, I was in a public restroom the other day, and it had one of those touch-free soap dispensers. I don't really get the point of those, though, because as long as the soap does its job like to remove the bacteria from my hands, does it really matter if I touch the dispenser or not? Well, one of the nastiest things out there is what you might be watching this video on right now: a phone. Most people check their phones nearly a hundred times a day, and I don't remember the last time that I thoroughly washed off my phone. There's so many things that you can do on a phone; there's almost unlimited possibilities.
Cell phone providers take advantage of this and sell unlimited minutes, unlimited texts, and unlimited data for any given month. But in reality, you're actually only getting 44,600 minutes a month at most, so they're kind of lying, but not really. There's about 730 hours in a month. If you work a full-time job, you're going to be working at least 40 hours a week, or 160 hours a month. It's all worth it, though, whenever that check comes in.
But sometimes you spend money you don't have. In a way, debit cards pay for things too, with the past hours of your life, and credit cards pay for things with the future hours of your life. But if you don't pay your taxes, you'll get thrown in jail. But jails are typically funded with taxpayer money, so if you go to jail for tax evasion, you're living off of taxes because you didn't pay taxes. Taxes are like a subscription for you to your country that you can't cancel even if you don't like the service.
The only reason we want or feel the need to make money is to get rid of all of it in the end. For a very brief second, every 19-year-old is the oldest teenager in the world. In the same way, every single person alive was at one point the youngest person in the entire world. But even more interesting than both of these is the fact that for the smallest period of time, if you were exactly pi years old. Walking is just you continuously screwing up your balance, so you fall into your other leg, and the process repeats until you reach your destination.
Knocking on someone's door is basically punching their house until they give you attention. Similarly, clapping is just giving yourself a high-five for someone else's hard work. Clapping is universally a pretty good thing. It's a way to show your appreciation for something without someone having to see you face to face. Facial expressions are something that we kind of just don't notice day to day, but they're pretty interesting. Your skull doesn't change shape at all; your skin, your flesh just warps and bends in ways to form a smile or a frown or anything else.
Actually, you've never even truly seen your own face before. You've only viewed it in pictures or in reflections. The rich used to pay the poor for their entertainment, but today the poor pay the rich for entertainment. Now, you don't always pay; like YouTube is a thing. But YouTube itself is older than some people are watching this video. Watching videos, though, is just being entertained by super tiny pixels changing colors and turning on and off. So to be honest, existence is just really weird.
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