Ramblings: Of Apes and Suicidal Rats

Human beings are weird. Ha! I didn't make a breakthrough there. It's more like someone saying  a milkshake is made of milk (is it, though?). Merely stating a fact. But what prompted me to make this statement is our ability to adapt to almost every definition of the word 'change'.

Of course, Darwin, well known for his affinity for apes, might argue that his great-great-great-great-great-keep adding 'great' for a little more-grandpa, who was an ape, was equally apt at adapting to changes in his surroundings. You gotta hand it to him. As the first ever Global Representative of the Ape population, he did more than just hand out bananas.

Coming back to the topic, one doesn't require a very high IQ (judging by the fact that even I figured it out) to see that change is part of our daily routine. No day is exactly the same as the following day, or the day before. For instance, take the pile of dirty laundry that sits in the middle of the room I share with my brother. It keeps getting bigger everyday. And smellier. Especially smellier. One time, it smelt so bad, like something had crawled under the pile and died. Afraid that we were hiding a dead body in our room, Mum had us clean it under her supervision. That's how we found the dead rat, with its head stuck in my bro's underpants. It must've been suicidal. Only the suicidal and insane (and the suicidally insane, obv.) mess with my bro's laundry, much less stick their face all the way in.

Kidding. There was no dead rat (it was a mouse). The point to remember here, is that small changes are  regular feature of our daily lives, and we hardly notice those. That shows malleability. And that I'm repeating myself 'cause I'm out words and brain cells.

Oh well. 'Til next time.

Perks of being messy: save up on anti-theft devices :P 

-NH