shower thoughts that broke the internet..
How many sides does a piece of paper have? I'll give you a second. Two? No, it's actually six. You don't realize it until you start stacking it.
There's a lot of things in life that take us by surprise, a lot of things that aren't really as they seem. Like elephants being herbivores; they'd be a lot more scary if they were carnivores. Your parents told you not to talk to strangers, yet here we are.
When you're talking or conversing with someone online, a lot of times you don't really know that much about them. The nice thing about not knowing anyone's age on the internet is that you can pretty much get in an argument with an eight-year-old and leave feeling superior. That serotonin boost can be exactly what you need some days. A lot of us could use a boost of those happy chemicals to make our lives a lot easier.
When you experience depression, your brain refuses to produce, let's call it a happy hormone, as a reward for your brain cells doing what they're supposed to do. As a result, your cells go on strike, refusing to work for no pay, and the whole system comes crashing down, benefiting absolutely nobody involved.
Sounds strikingly familiar. History repeats. Speaking of history, it must have been really awkward being the first historian to have ever existed. I can just imagine that conversation happening: it's like, "So what are you doing? Just writing down everything that's been happening?"
But the way we view history is now changing. At some point, the internet will be older than all humans alive. Future generations will have tons of high-quality video footage of so many extinct animals, old civilizations, and where Santa used to live before the Arctic melted and disappeared.
That might make you feel like an old doomer, but remember, the number of people older than you never increases; it only decreases. It's like a lifelong race to be ranked number one, except the prize for winning is just death.
And out of the billions of people who have ever lived, just one of them suffered the most agonizing death of us all so far. But maybe that happened hundreds of years ago. Until trains were invented in 1804, every human who ever lived that experienced a speed upwards of 56 miles per hour was falling to their death.
Normally, the floor is what stops gravity from killing us, but if we get too far away from it, gravity uses the floor to kill us. Life is short, so they say, but life is only short if you love your life; otherwise, it is very, very painfully long.
It's like playing a game. In this case, it'd be more painful to lose the game by one point than by a hundred points, you know what I mean? But enough with being morbid. Good dreams are basically a free trial of a life you could have been living. But in a way, if there are an infinite number of universes, then our dreams aren't actually dreams; they're clips and previews from another universe that we can see into.
But our universe isn't so bad. Being able to go to sleep without worrying that you'll get eaten by some random animal is probably the most privileged thing about our modern world. It wasn't always like that, so we should really appreciate it.
We don't really appreciate a lot of free things in life, like taking your health for granted all the time until you're sick. Only then do you actually care. Oh, and email; we take our own planet for granted almost daily.
National parks are a perpetual reminder of what the world would look like if it weren't for humans. Ironic how we enjoy them so much, isn't it? I just blinked, and most of the time we barely even notice how often we blink.
Characters in first-person video games never blink, if you think about it. It doesn't feel like much; it's just one of those manual processes that our bodies do for us that we just forget about. We really take for granted how smooth the insides of our eyelids are.
Imagine if they were like sandpaper. Us humans can barely live with one another without trying to kill each other, so the fact that people can convince themselves that meeting aliens would go smoothly is nothing short of pure hopium. If they got upset with us, they'd just throw another one of those b...