Page 26 | To ask for weird realisations you’ve had about life?

goergia · 2022-04-13T22:49:55+00:00

Things about mundane life that you’ve never given much thought but suddenly think “Now I think about it, that’s weird.” I had one of these today. I live in a mid-terrace, neighbours are nice and quiet and we don’t hear a peep. A few days ago I had a snoop at one of the next-door neighbour’s house on Rightmove after seeing it was for sale, and realised that they have their bed right up against our party wall as I do mine. So even though I sleep in bed alone every night, there’s actually 2 people who I don’t really know just a couple of inches away from me! I don’t know why but for some reason it creeps me out. I’ve realised that in terraced houses you’re actually sharing one building with lots of people, many of whom you will NEVER interact with.

Cryingintherain99 · 15/04/2022 19:53

One thing I have never been able to explain and still can't to this day.
As a child I spent a lot of time at my grandparents house. Visited two or three times a week.
On one visit when I was about six or seven, I walked in through the back door (same door we usually entered) and I perceived it as though the entire house was in "mirror image".
In the kitchen and living room it was as though the entire rooms had been flipped around so I was viewing it from the opposite side.
It appeared that we entered these rooms from the hallway on the right instead of the left.

I remember trying to explain it to my Gran, but couldn't articulate it.
I just kept saying "The house seems different". I actually found it quite distressing. Almost dream-like.

The next time we visited it was back to how it should be, and I never experienced it again.
Anyone experienced anything similar or have any idea why it might have appeared that way?

Organictangerine · 15/04/2022 20:03

@Mfsf

My biggest shock is that there is so much xenophobia and racism in Britain and also how different the 4 nations in Britain are . The way people behave in England is different to the way they do in Scotland wakes or NI . I never realised this until I moved outside of England

Really? I’m curious. Do you have any specific examples?

Jinglebin1 · 15/04/2022 20:05

The dinosaurs. My pea brain just still cannot comprehend it.

Sophie1029734 · 15/04/2022 20:10

I am 22 and so far ive had 4 realisations.

I've always idolised my nan and grandad. I never thought harm could come to them, I never believed I'd have to live without them. When my grandad passed away at 78yrs old, 3 months ago.. I come to the realisation that we do infact die. One day every 1 such as my mum, dad, family etc.. will all be gone. One day it'll just be me.

The second is that those older than me are still trying to figure out life, just like me. They still feel the same as they once did at my age.. they just have more knowledge and life experience. When I was 15, when I thought of being 20 I thought time would be so slow that I would never become that age. I've relised that this isn't true, time goes fast. I will soon be 30, then 40 and so on... I shouldn't take life for granted.

The other is that many adults lack common sense and basic knowledge... people are dumber than i relised.
When covid hit, the ammount of people who lacked basic understanding of how viruses spread shocked me.
People just say and do dumb things.. I've come to the realisation that there's a lot of dumb people.

That despite people being in a profession, they don't know everything about it.

ToryWantsBorisOut · 15/04/2022 20:10

That I will die never really knowing the answers to the big things in life - like how the universe came to be or how life started or how we made the leap to intelligent life. That there's nothing more than theories and I will cease to exist without ever actually knowing the answers.

Moonlightdust · 15/04/2022 20:11

How is it even possible to hear somebody’s voice the other side of the world over the phone?! It’s mind blowing to me. Also how a camera captures an image in time. We just take it for granted whipping out our phones to take pictures but when I think about it carefully, I’m still baffled as to how photographs both digital and printed exist.

Jinglebin1 · 15/04/2022 20:11

Also...the internet is weird as hell. How does it work? I still don't know.

ToryWantsBorisOut · 15/04/2022 20:11

Something that hurts my heart is that I witnessed my Mum be burnt to a crisp (she was already dead obviously, but I'll still never get my head around it)

Sophie1029734 · 15/04/2022 20:12

@Sophie1029734

I am 22 and so far ive had 4 realisations.

I've always idolised my nan and grandad. I never thought harm could come to them, I never believed I'd have to live without them. When my grandad passed away at 78yrs old, 3 months ago.. I come to the realisation that we do infact die. One day every 1 such as my mum, dad, family etc.. will all be gone. One day it'll just be me.

The second is that those older than me are still trying to figure out life, just like me. They still feel the same as they once did at my age.. they just have more knowledge and life experience. When I was 15, when I thought of being 20 I thought time would be so slow that I would never become that age. I've relised that this isn't true, time goes fast. I will soon be 30, then 40 and so on... I shouldn't take life for granted.

The other is that many adults lack common sense and basic knowledge... people are dumber than i relised.
When covid hit, the ammount of people who lacked basic understanding of how viruses spread shocked me.
People just say and do dumb things.. I've come to the realisation that there's a lot of dumb people.

That despite people being in a profession, they don't know everything about it.

Also people don't relise how dumb they are. They don't relise how much they contradict themselves either

ThisMammaCat · 15/04/2022 20:14

My oldest teenager pointed out to me that once one starts clapping, it never really stops, the gaps between claps just vary.

Doris86 · 15/04/2022 20:15

@me4real

I got into Catholicism and realized a couple of things about it so far.

Catholic guilt shouldn't be a thing. Because you can confess your sins once a week or something and you're absolved of it all as long as you genuinely want to change.
If a Catholic says that a certain thing is not ok according to the Bible, it is not necessarily a personal, subjective judgement. It is what God says, that's all, not our decision.

1 - Yes, you can be the most dreadful person, murdering rapist for example, but as long as you confess and say sorry, God lets you off.

2 - Nope, it’s why whoever wrote the bible says. Which certainly wasn’t God.

Jinglebin1 · 15/04/2022 20:16

@ToryWantsBorisOut

Something that hurts my heart is that I witnessed my Mum be burnt to a crisp (she was already dead obviously, but I'll still never get my head around it)

I never want to be cremated for this reason. People never seem to understand why I feel how I do about it though and laugh that I want to be buried.

FootieMama · 15/04/2022 20:17

@Rebeccasmoonnecklace, I feel the same. It freaks me out even more when I try to think about the origin of the universe. Can't imagine the universe starting to exist

jjjjjjjjjjjjjjj · 15/04/2022 20:19

@Wiredforsound

That we think our country is the centre of the world and other countries are secondary to us, the US, the EU, Australia and New Zealand. It blew my mind to find out how much history, and culture, and pride there are in what we call second and third world countries - bands bigger than the Beatles, huge cinema industries making movies we’ll never hear of, cities bigger than London and New York, and there’s so much stuff we’re missing out on - Georgian ballet is a world away from we know as ballet, amazing choirs, huge leagues of sports we don’t play. Our world is amazing.

And do you know what's even more mind-blowing. Other countries aren't this self-obsessed / arrogant like the Brits are! Ime (EU immigrant) it's a very British thing to see all the others as 'secondary' like that

Gagaandgag · 15/04/2022 20:21

Talking of menstruation - One that gets me is that women are born with all their eggs. So while the baby girl is developing in her mum part of their potential grandchildren are in their too!!

Footgoose · 15/04/2022 20:22

That the room is always spinning. Alcohol just makes it worse.

Ridingoutthewaves · 15/04/2022 20:32

@GlitterSquid you just blew my mind ‘90% of what we see isn’t there…

pigalow · 15/04/2022 20:34

I find it absolutely gobsmacking how much wealth there is in property. On an average street of 30-40 houses they are probably worth 10 million quid! Going for a walk you might pass houses worth in total a couple of hundred million. That's just in one tiny residential area. If you start to try to multiply it across the country, the figures are eye watering

Gagaandgag · 15/04/2022 20:35

Yes it feels totally mind blowing! 😔

PurpleFlower1983 · 15/04/2022 20:40

I don’t understand how planes stay in the sky.

JustDanceAddict · 15/04/2022 20:52

I often think about the fact I had a v early miscarriage a few months before I conceived DD - if I’d had that baby I would’ve had completely different children.
This was 20+ years ago and I do still contemplate it occasionally.

Shortkiwi · 15/04/2022 20:53

Sorry if this has already been said -
Probably not mundane but the realisation that life is finite freaks me out.
I’ve felt like this all my life but don’t think everyone feels like this. I can’t get over how sophisticated we are as humans in terms of lifestyle, technology etc but then we just die one day! I can come to terms with creatures with less developed brains dying. I get so wound up about the small stuff, it’s ridiculous, however I can’t get over the fact I won’t be here in 30 years time!

Catlady2021 · 15/04/2022 20:54

May sound insensitive but the 911 victims. It’s easy to think of them as statistics. Numbers of deaths.
But they were normal people. They had families and normal jobs. They went to work on a normal September morning and didn’t come home. Likewise the passengers who boarded the planes.
Quite a few were UK citizens too from normal British towns.

JustDanceAddict · 15/04/2022 20:55

genius.com/Monty-python-the-galaxy-song-lyrics

MrsSkylerWhite · 15/04/2022 20:57

Bogeyes

That many adults are stupid“

Yep.