Noble Beast
I have a special bond with some of the things I learn. Just think of how many things you learn throughout a normal day, it’s staggering… but most of it is trivial and dull. In fact, most of the things I learn at work or just going about my day pass right through me, like the plot of a bad paperback novel. There are a few things that have poetry to them, or at least to me.
For instance, I’m taking a human physiology class and we are studying the nervous system. The nervous system is incredibly complex, and filled with all kinds of beautiful nuances. Anyway, at it’s core are little electrical currents that are created and propagated out through the body. These are very small currents, very faint… on the order of millivolts.
That is interesting enough but on my drive home I was treated to a wonderful lightning storm off in the big Texas sky. I could see the blue flashes of light speckle the bellies of the clouds all the way home. It was beautiful but the flashes were all pointless and random right? It’s amazing to think that that is what I AM. My thoughts, my personality, and my memories are all tied up in these little flashes of lightning in my head that might seem equally as pointless to say a frog or a rock. So I drove on with that happy realization and figured maybe that lightning wasn’t so random…. and for a moment I think the lights in the sky and I understood each other.
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