Thoughts From A Walk

The kind of thoughts that could swirl around in one’s mind if one chose to go for a walk:

Asking “Is everything okay?” communicates care and concern, whereas asking “Are you okay?” sounds offensive.

Thoughts From A Walk - A person expressing care for another person.

“I do what I think I should do” and “I don’t do what I don’t think I should do” logically mean the same thing in formal language, but convey the opposite meaning in common language.

If people can ride horses or bikes, are we all riding the earth? Is the moon riding the earth? Are the planets riding the sun? Are we all riding the sun? Is the sun riding the universe? Are we all riding the universe? What’s the universe riding?

Thoughts From A Walk - A shot of a bike race taken in a dramatic angle.

If music is orchestrated sound heard by the ears and a laser show is orchestrated light seen by the eyes, can orchestrated touch be a sense of pleasure to the skin we haven’t invented yet?

Thoughts From A Walk - An audio cassette with its reel taken out.

If the best things in life are free, someone, somewhere, decided to take a loss by doing something without expecting anything material in return. But seeing someone else feel pleasure is a gain for them. Is anything in life free at all?

If you managed to hover 1 meter above a black hole, 1 year for you would be 1000 years on earth. Are boring lectures simulations of black holes?

Thoughts From A Walk - A tunnel leading to a person on the other end (black and white image).

You cannot imagine colours you’ve never seen; you cannot imagine anything that you cannot experience with your senses. Is imagination then just the analog of photoshop for all that we can already experience?

 Thoughts From A Walk - An image expressing various colours via metallic glitter.

 

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You are constantly wet on the inside, but you don’t feel wet at all; you are mostly dry on the outside, and don’t feel dry at all. It’s the opposite life for a fish. A fish must feel gross when it jumps out of water, like: “Bleh, it’s dry out there!”

Thoughts From A Walk  - A fish in the sea.

If you shower once a day to keep clean, do fish come out of water to get clean as well?

The gentle laughter of a kind looking woman dressed in white can melt anyone’s heart, except when it’s 3 AM and you’re a single man living alone, looking at your own reflection in the mirror.

Thoughts From A Walk - Woman in white holding candles (seen from her back)

There’s at least one person in the whole wide world who is thinking about you as you read this sentence.

You can never sneeze with your eyes open. But boy does sneezing feel good; except after COVID happened, and people turn to look at you like you’re the new witch in town.

Thoughts From A Walk - A child sneezing.

You could have ice cream for breakfast, chocolate bars for lunch and caramel popcorn for dinner. You won’t probably last long though, but you’d have a sweet time while you are at it.

Thoughts From A Walk - An image showing delicious pistachio Ice cream.

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