How many people would be vegetarians if it were not for bacon? The candy of the meat world is a cruel temptress! How many people would be Jewish or Muslim? Do we have to cover our heads (basically Jews and Muslims) or may we not (basically Christians). And who’s uncovered heads offends God anyway, women or men? What if we pick the wrong God? Can’t they all get along? Would it even be possible for them to not get along?
Why does 62 degrees F feel great on a summer morning but 62 degrees F feels so cold that it must be corrected on a winter morning? Why does it always seem to take less time getting back from a place than it took to get there? How do I keep picking the slowest grocery checkout line? How do all of us? Are the laws of physics and math suspended in checkout lines?
Why do I keep sabotaging myself? Is everything a self-fulfilling prophecy? Why does the word fulfilling only have three l’s? Why is it not spelled beleave? Just get over it spell checker, I think you are wrong. How does one know to put a “kerr” sound at the beginning of colonel but not colony? I wonder if there are any people named Colonel Colony? Why is it socially “okay” to make fun of certain people but not others? Why are we all so afraid of ourselves? Are we more afraid of failing or succeeding? Living or dying? Why am I such a poor speller? Do we keep living lives over and over until we “get it”, figure out whatever our personal BIG challenge is….the one that we were randomly assigned on our first day of work? The one that determines all that happens to us for all the days before us? Do we even know what our personal BIG challenge is? How many unique ones are there? It seems the only important numbers are minus infinity, zero, one and plus infinity….and seven in the West and eight in the East…oh yeah and Pi and Tau and “e”.
Will AI save humanity, destroy humanity, or be a big nothing-burger? Why do I suck at meditating? How many lifetimes would I have to live in order to become decent at it? Is there such a thing? Maybe I experienced enlightenment once but forgot? Maybe we experience it thousands of times a day and never notice? How many lifetimes am I allowed to have? How many would I want?
By belching out these thoughts am I emptying my brain of them or causing the number of random weird paradoxes available to me to grow? I bet there are an infinite number of them….or only one. Whatever that one is must be presence or NOW or Love or something like that. Or maybe Cheez Whiz? Why do I fear that Kraft will sue me for mentioning a product of theirs and not putting a little “TM” after it or and “R” or whatever we decided is legally required? Why would they not be happy that I name-checked them….for free…on a site about mindful happyish living read by at least a dozen people?
How will I know when to end this post? I guess I, squirrel!