Saturday, March 7, 2009

101 not out for Queensland

Another totally amazing yet greatly unappreciated concept
POPCORN
I mean who would have thought that the annoying yellow stuff, that gets stuck in your teeth and has absolutely no nutritional value could be POPPED into something that is by far cooler but still gets stuck in your teeth and still has pretty much no nutritional value. But in a less critical mind, it is pretty amazing, why when corn is heated would it chose to pop in to white fluffy pieces? Everything else put under the same pressure would just shrivel up and burn, but no popcorn sticks it out. Popcorn is part of our lives whether we realise it or not. Everyone has either had a popcorn fight at the movies or being a victim of a popcorn attack, shares it with a loved on or mate at a movie. Popcorn witness so much of our lives, fun times with friends, it comforts us a sad movies.
Speaking of which: bridges. Now I know your asking how are bridges related to popcorn? HAHA I got you, they're not. But they are related to my view point of popcorn. I mean imagine life from the perspective of a bridge. Stop laughing and do it. You sit in the same place your whole life, no one appreciates you. Everything around you changes but you remain the same, you are ever-constant. The water beneath you is constantly flowing which prevents you ever being able to spend time with any part of it for more than a second. This prevents you ever having a friend. Other beings of your kind are never near by, no one ever builds two bridges together, so you are doomed to be alone. Without you the world wouldn't function quite as well, but no one seems to see it that way. You are a miracle in your structure, the way you seem to defy gravity by not falling down.
Who would want to be a bridge after all that? I think I would. Imagine bridging the gap between two places, to know that because of you people can travel and make new friends. To have fireworks explode off you on new years eve, to be a architectural masterpiece that would not only bridge the gap between places but between times. To exist for decades without fail. To be relied on so heavily by so many, and to fulfil that responsibility so brilliantly.
What if all of this was just an analogy to represent people in your life that you walk over everyday, without noticing them or appreciating that without what they do, your life would be a heck of a lot harder. Or maybe it was just a different perspective of the world and you are reading too much into it. Either way I had fun writing it.
What to take from this:
-Bridges aren't related to popcorn,
-Bridges are important =)
-Eating anything that has the word corn in it will require the use of a toothpick afterwards =)