Imagine 10,000 years in the future. Two archaeologists are digging a site, and they find the remains of human bones. They take those remains to the lab, perform tests on them, and try to reconstruct the habits and lifestyle of that human. Say those bones belong to me. They are trying to find out my story, how I lived, what I ate, where I traveled, etc. Once they find all the info they need, they toss it into a museum where they store all other such ancient human remains they find. I was essentially one data point to them in trying to understand how humanity evolved over time. Or I can also call myself a “datum”, the singular form of data, literally one piece of information to solve a bigger puzzle. Honestly, I don’t need 10,000 years to become a datum. I am already a part of several datasets people use these days to study many things. So for that objective learner, I am already a datum. Now let me get to how I got the dumb part of it. I have had an interesting and eventful life so far...
1.
It has been so dark lately when I get out of my
home early in the morning to run. Usually, people aren’t out on the streets
yet, so my first sign of contact with life in that new day is a cat which lives
inside a ditch near my home. I named it Garfield because it is a yellowish and a
funny looking cat. Whenever I try to go near it, it gets antsy and hides inside
the ditch. Today I thought I saw Garfield and tried to approach it, but I found a raccoon instead, yikes. I wonder if Garfield's doing alright.
2.
One mile into my run, I enter a nice street with
expensive houses. I sometimes see people walking their dogs there, but no one
ever bothers to reply to my good morning. But there’s this one old lady who I
see walking with a cane almost on my every run, she recognizes me now and we started
waving to each other. This is how you make friends while running solo.
3.
I ran a 22-minute 5k today. It is crazy to me
that two years ago attempting a sub-30 5k had me throw up in front of hundreds
of people watching. I guess consistency and effort do pay off in the long run. It
makes me think that the Aesop Fable about tortoise & hare has been mistold.
The way tortoise won that race was by training consistently for two years, rain
or shine.
4.
My coworker sent this funny gif of a cartoon
digging its grave and I replied with “Stoics actually believe that death is not
to be feared as it is a natural process where the constituents making up our
bodies go back into the earth, where they are originally from. In fact, Socrates
was famously indifferent to death by drinking poison.” My coworker was like “about
time you take some days off dude.”
5. My brain randomly reminded me of this quote from Wanda Vision show today. It goes like “what is grief, if not love persevering.”
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