Monday, April 16, 2007

Funny creatures, us humans, when you consider the fact that, aside from memories or material possessions, we can't store a single thing for further use. Not sleep, not food, nor emotions.

You can sleep for as long as you want, for many days on end, but the one day you don't sleep at all wrecks you. You find it difficult to concentrate, and the urge to doze off grows stronger with every passing minute. Its almost as if you didn't spend all those days resting up for it!

Food works a little better in this respect. Stuff yourself, and you probably will eat less for the next meal, or maybe even skip it all together. But the effects don't last very long. Metabolism strips you bare of what you've already ingested, and demands for even more. Our bodies just can't store any form of food for long-term use, the way camels do with water, or bears through hiberntation. Irritating isn't it? Imagine trekking through the desert lugging around all that food on top of the weight you're already carrying. Wonders what food storage organs would do for us.

And when you think about it, you can't store and re-use emotions. Take happiness for example. How wonderful life would be if you could keep recalling and re-using the emotions you felt when you were most happy. Not one more day of sorrow, or anger. Just pure bliss. But reality is never like that. Negative emotions will always be there, and we'll all have to grapple with them at one point or another.

Plenty we could do if we just could store all these things for further use, but the Chap-Upstairs has other ideas. Perhaps to remind us of our own vulnerability, or that life isn't just a bed of roses; to fully appreciate it would be to take in both the thorns and the roses. Ohwell. Who can read His intentions?

Which reminds me. Randomness like this is something else that can't be recycled. =D

i heard the crickets at 10:20 pm

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