Pages of Life

Immensity, I think, is one of the most impressive things to me. The number of stars, the size of a mountain, the vastness of space, the amount of work and information that your brain processes at the speed it does. All things incomprehensible and not entirely obtainable. I think I live in the land of theories, somewhere between reality and imagination. I think it's a place of mystery and not knowing for sure is one of the best parts. That's why I get so excited with new thought lines. It's like a new toy to puzzle over. I can twist it and turn it and look at every side I can think of. Then when I show someone else, they can point out new sides or new views on ones I've already found. Or, even more often, I find a string attached that leads to another toy, or maybe a different limb of the same one. It's hard to tell sometimes. But I can look at the connections and see all these new things and it's exciting because I think I know I have someone to share it with. I can give somebody something important. Thinking about how clouds are really just water and wouldn't look so white if you were in them. It'd just be like fog. Or thinking about how your body is made of parts made of tissues of cells of chemicals of atoms of subatomic particles that we can't even see. Particles that could be infinitely small. Or thinking about how really, there's no one normal. It's a collection of "normals" that's a little different for everyone. But I think we express and understand individual sides of "normal" enough to know what's communally accepted. And from that branches culture and religion and stereotypes and rules and laws. What is accepted by the masses? That is what begins to define us as people. Certain people have an idea, something that would benefit them, and they act on it. They advertise it. And they are the ones that change our culture. They determine what is accepted because they hold power over people. Simply put, they are the influential. Not only that, but they're idealized to the point that we mere mortals feel we have no right to question or challenge them. Scientists, singers, actors, pastors, even the founding fathers. No one seems willing to ask if Washington could have done a better job as a president or if Einstein could be mistaken about one of his formulas. I'm not saying these weren't great or iconic men. They were. But they were still men. Human. They messed up. They were mistaken. They had problems. Celebrities are in a bit of an inverse situation. Their faults are exposed, blown up, made to look as if no one else on earth has ever had a divorce. EVER. There's just something about drama, about people having specific roles, that we don't dare question.... and I'm not sure it's so good for us....