Drunk Thoughts

This is stupid, or is it? As I think deeper and deeper, it makes even more sense. This article is about the thoughts one gets when one’s drunk. Not to brag but I was sober when I thought of these and I’m sure many of you have also had these but I just have to share these out.

1) What happens when we die?

Yes, I am going to start with the most cliched and most asked question. But it really is a wonder to think about. I don't believe in any God but is a human’s life completely over after he/she dies? But when we die is it the end? One optimistic thing I love about Christianity and other religions is the idea of an afterlife. How when one dies, he/she goes to heaven or hell. I do not believe in heaven or hell but the idea of an afterlife is good but it does not have any proof except the bible. As a non-believer the thought of having it all end when we die makes me wanna live my life to the fullest, NO REGRETS. Die a happy man.

2) How did people create languages?

I am a little slow at learning a language because I find it super boring. But one question I had during my school days, sitting in the boring English class was how did humans create languages. I look at my book and find a word and repeat the word until I feel like I’m just making some weird sound. Aren’t the words we speak, the words we write all just weird sounds and doodles. BOOK. Repeat that word out loud or in your mind, after a few seconds, you will realize how stupid it sounds. Makes you wonder that all words are just sequences of sounds that humans combined to communicate with each other. What again wonders me is how did a lot of people learn the same language? Did they all just come together and decide to make sound patterns and decide that's gonna be their “language”. Indians got one, British got one, Africans got one, each having different sounds but the same meaning.

3) How do we have control?

Yes, we have a brain. But what controls the brain. We have learned in our schools that the brain control what the body does. Our muscles move as the brain sends messages through neurons and hence we move. But we can do whatever we want. I decide if I want to write this article. I decide if I want to jump or sit. What makes me want to do that? What makes the brain send messages to different parts of the body. Is it the conscience or mind or soul? I guess that's something we can never know.

4) What makes us feel good and bad?

This question is similar to the previous one. But imagine you are given a flower and trash, what makes you like the smell of the flower and not the trash. What isn't it the other way round? Why don't we like the smell of trash and hate the smell of flowers (JUST TO BE CLEAR, I DONT LIKE THE SMELL OF TRASH)? But how does our brain decide what to like and what not to like? Imagine a world where people have perfumes with scents of rotten bananas or dead rats and hate the scent of flowers or fruits. That is almost hard to even think about.

5) How capable are humans?

When I think about it, we humans have changed so much. We fought 2 great world wars. Caused a lot of havoc. But since the 2000’s the world has been developing so much quicker. We got smartphones, artificial stoves, laptops, social media, video calls etc. Its hard to imagine that just 20 years ago these facilities did not even exist. The thought of having a phone where users touch on the screen to navigate through was absurd and here we are clicking away on our phone 24/7.

These thoughts are just some weird ones I had for a while and I just wanted to share them with you all. Talk to you in the next article.