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

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goergia · 13/04/2022 23:49

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.

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the80sweregreat · 20/04/2022 21:03

Iamthedevilsavacado
I smiled briefly at a young man who looked bored in the customer services part of a supermarket today.
He stared at me as if I had two heads and an alien body Lol
I know I'm old and fat , but honestly , it was painful.
Even ' silver foxes' types don't like me.
But I understand what you mean.
Maybe I should go back to wearing the masks again 😂

nancyonthebike · 22/04/2022 22:37

Dinoteeth · 17/04/2022 11:52

Male / Female reproduction fascinates me.
How did Male develop sperm, female develop eggs, womb, fallopian tubes all at the same time to enable reproduction?

I can get my head round evolution in the sense of mammals evolving from other mammals.
But I cannot accept that complicated mammals, with wombs, eggs and sperm evolved from a single cell organisim in a puddle.

Even birds and fish laying eggs, how did that happen for the very first time?

It's far too much, I mean how has it worked so perfectly, come together in such a way? Powers above that we don't have the capability of knowing?
Nature? If so how bloody powerful is this stuff?
And then that makes me wonder why humans thinks they are the more powerful and where that will lead too. How dangerous it will become.

the80sweregreat · 23/04/2022 08:14

The fact that an egg and a sperm can make us humans with all the organs we need to survive is mind blowing. The brain is complex enough , but we also need kidneys and a liver and bones and our hearts are amazing too, I could go on !
I didn't really use to think much about any of these things, but once you start ..plus we all have the same facial features but the way they are arranged determines how we look too ( beautiful, ugly , average whatever )
We are all so unique in our DNA and make up

KarmaComma · 23/04/2022 19:44

Fitterbyfifty · 20/04/2022 11:39

i think about when i die. how i will be in the middle of life - mid way through a series on tv, part way through a book, that sort of thing. life doesn't tie up and that freaks me out sometimes
My uncle made himself a cup of coffee after work, sat down in his armchair and died before he drank it. It seems so wierd that he made that cup of coffee fully expecting to be around to drink it but then he wasnt.

My mum died part way through a book, so I read it on her behalf. She was also not at the end of Big Brother series for that year - the one with Nicky Graham - and never got to watch to the end. It is very odd.

Knifer · 24/04/2022 20:30

I think about how amazing is is that of all the billions of cells that could have come together, two in particular merged to make me. My husband. My children. Everyone. And because of those two particular cells for every individual, they will look a certain way, they will experience certain health issues, they will be a certain height.... our genetic destiny is partially determined when our grandmothers are pregnant with our mothers and their tiny ovaries and the eggs within are being created.

hihellohihello · 25/04/2022 13:51

We are never truly alone. Our bodies host more bacteria than cells of our bodies plus what is more they interact and effect us! Even how we think! Each person is like a walking community.

🙂

Kikibabes · 25/04/2022 23:56

HelloBunny · 14/04/2022 04:25

That clothes are just body coverings that nobody really cares about. Fashion doesn’t really matter, as long as you’re warm & comfortable. Face creams, posh or cheap, are pots of goo that make no difference to your face whatsoever. Often one looks better without make-up / hair products. I only notice very well-dressed / stylish folk (and even then, so what?), most people don’t need to bother...
Also, being fat / thin / blonde / brunette. Makes no difference, really! Skin colour, the same. I genuinely can’t figure out why issues with it even exist. I just can’t see why?

Love this!!! and 100% agree- none of it makes any difference to the person you are & how you treat people- we all end up in the same place in the end so do you want to be remembered for your fancy designer stuff? Or for being a genuinely lovely, caring, and loving person??? 🤔🤔💕

newjerseyp · 26/04/2022 12:09

SVRT19674 · 20/04/2022 10:32

That the people in very old photographs are all dead. Was looking at some street views of my home town in 1900-1910. Adults, kids, people going about their business, some looking at the photographer, the instant was caught, their lives went on and then it all ended. I also wonder who survived the war, who didn´t, they didn´t know what was in store for them, and I do know. The historical events at least.
Someone´s toddler died some time ago and I found myself thinking, that was going to be someone´s husband. That person will never know that he who would be her husband died in childhood.
That we are children of an instant, had our parents done the deed later or earlier, different kids would have been born.

But he wouldn't have been someone's husband as he died as a toddler so it was never going to be.

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