All I was doing was refilling the pepper container and some peppercorns spilled onto the white countertop. Black pepper I learned, is the most widely used and most important spice in the world. The things that can come to mind when you're alone in an empty, quiet kitchen at say, 2pm, looking at pepper for seemingly the first time in your life. To me, each one resembled a brain attached to a person and their widely unique perspective. It really reminded me of the funny quote, "You are absolutely unique, just like everyone else."
It's mind boggling that you can be shuffling into a huge concert with thousands of other people or sitting in a traffic jam with cars before you and behind you as far as the eye can see, thinking - I'm - special. Oh, the day Eye...have had...
No, I know! My 9 pound brain knows, your brain is wrong! It's pretty rediculous. I possess one little pepper brain and that's it. No, no you ARE unique, but you're also just a data point. You're just another voter, driver, shopper, commuter, viewer, user, rider, spectator, ticket holder, caller, customer, consumer, member, participant, patient, tax payer, registrant, credit card holder, vacationer, victim, buyer, seller, golfer, graduate, birth, death, data point.
It's very free'ing because it helps me relax, like, dude, nobody cares, every single person is in their own head, in their own peppercorn. MY graduating class, OUR team, THIS outfit, OUR family, MY friends, THIS matters more...I think it's good to feel really small sometimes.
"If you think you are too small to be effective, then you have never been in the dark with a mosquito." - Betty Reese
As briliantly played in Season 7, Episode 10 of Curb Your Enthusiasm, "having said that," 8 billion of us need 'different' perspectives in order to keep more of us alive over the centuries. IMHO, if we all thought the same, our species would have ended long ago. Republicans / Democrats / Left Brain / Right Brain? We need them all.
It's crazy that one peppercorn / brain / person can alter the course of thousands or millions of others. I could never, ever drive something like that. Yes, a peppercorn, but the size and vitality of certain people is incredible. Some individuals can change the course of history, for better or worse. Save them or push them over the edge.
"Birds of a Feather, stick together,"...why are we so easily influenced. It's nuts, but "we have to band together!"
Apparently, scientists say we generate about 20,000+ thoughts a day within our little pepper brains. I just can't believe sometimes how it really does feel like we are operating within a massive universe in our heads, which stretches very far and wide within the human experience. It makes me feel very unique and special, especially when you're younger, but drive through Cairo for an hour and then fly back to your town and it makes you think about your 'stature.' I've been around many big personalities, which often includes tempers, but we're each so big, yet so small:
"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
Shakespeare, Macbeth
