Everything is Amazing

 

A picture of a mountain stream

When you stop and think about it, when you look around at things, it's all pretty great. There's just so much stuff. You've got...

• trash bags
• dragonflies
• aspirin
• jeans
• cholesterol
• the word "wow"
• a picture of a mountain stream
• speaker-wire
• lightning
• bullet lists
• rubber duckies

... well - I'm not going to list it all here, but there's a lot, as I'm sure you've noticed. It would be nice if someone somewhere was keeping a list of everything that exists. (Is that one of the reasons we made computers - so we could create a way to catalogue everything so we don't lose track of it?) But is it a finite list? That's something for you to think about. Can something ever fall off this list? I guess no one would ever know. Does an item on the list count as something new that also needs to be added to the list... like this:

• the pancakes I made this morning
• the list item: "The pancakes I made this morning"
• the list item: "the list item: The pancakes I made this morning"

... you see what I mean. It gets pretty messy. If you were the list-maker, keeping track of the items on the list itself would really take up most of your time. I wouldn't want to be the one in charge of it.

Let me know if you're keeping a list like this. I've got a few things to add.