You know what’s weird? When you are doing something that seems completely normal to you, but then someone mentions how weird and abnormal it actually is. Say, for example, being able to bend your thumb behind your hand. I thought it was something everyone could do, but upon showing people that I could do it, many people were weirded out by it and could not accomplish such a feat. Another weird thing I thought everyone could do would be flattening my fingers against my palm. I didn’t think much of it, until I was bored in class one day and just started messing around with the flexibility of my fingers, as I often do. I flattened my fingers without a second thought, but apparently someone saw me because they told me that it was not normal to be able to make my fist almost flat. I guess I should have questioned it when I could see a visible indent where my knuckle and fingers meet, signifying that my knuckles and fingers were separating from each other. The point I’m trying to get at here is that things that seem completely normal to you may be extremely abnormal to another person. It also makes me wonder if the other numerous things I do are normal. Probably not.

When you think about it, infectious diseases that kill their hosts are extremely ineffective. If this host is allowing you to survive, and it provides a breeding ground, why would you destroy it? It’d be like moving into a mansion, and then burning it down. If bacteria and viruses were smart, wouldn’t they improve their hosts? Think about it, if you improve your host’s ability to survive, it increases your survival too. In fact, if you improved your host, you improve your chance of infecting others since the hosts would most likely become more outgoing since they feel better, and wouldn’t stay home because they feel sick because you eliminate the sickness part. Besides, if I could become improved by becoming infected, I would do it in a heartbeat.

Don’t you find it weird that we greatly value various gemstones and rocks? It’s basically like, “Hey, this rock looks pretty. I’m gonna sell it and say that it’s worth a lot of money.” Some of these rocks are ‘worth’ a lot simply because we say they do or because they look pretty. We could all one day decide that gold is worthless and ugly, and it would likely lose most of its value. It would essentially be a boycott. If there was an industry that everyone despised uniformly, we could all boycott it and crash that specific industry. Honestly, it sounds like it would be fun to completely ruin an industry.