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posted (2.24.2009)
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the meaninglessness of life
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it just dawned on me how obscure life is. it manifested itself in many different forms today.
for example. looking at a map in my history book, i got carried away staring at a map of modern-day maryland (which was, in the book, maryland). you know that little tip, its like maryland poking its finger into the continental united states?
er, yeah, that one. well, back to my daydream, i was picturing cutting off just the tip of it, so just about all that was left was the little pinky toe, essentially the area in the circle provided above. because at that point, the "new" state borders the potomac river, and a little tiny land border to the mother state, real maryland. you could do a lot of things with that little patch of land. i say we finance a revolution and get it to secede the union! but anyways. do you know how big that area is? a whopping 25 miles long. 25 blessed miles in length! you could WALK that distance in several days! 40.2336 km for you metric fiends.
and it was just then, just exactly then, that i realized how fruitless our lives are. think about it! that diagram looks huge, but go get a united states map from your library and pinpoint maryland. it's literally as big as your pinky, right? now go get a world map. see the united states? (geography lesson if you don't) it's probably as big as your hand, maybe even a clenched fist.
the world is HUGE. and you know what else is huge? (um.) the internet! if you're reading this, you are probably VERY bored. i'm absolutely positive i have no readers. this blog exists as a blip on the corner of the internet, the fringes of the fringes of a vast online ecosystem.
your friends are the only people that really know who you are. isn't that a terrible thought? ah, well, a terrible thought for a terrible day. i would expound on this theory but frankly blog writing has made me feel terribly unenthusiastic at the moment.
love your uncle thom
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