So this morning, amid the bad TV and lounging on my sofa in my pajamas, my mind decided it was a good time to start wandering and I started to think about the kind of things other people would be doing at this very moment in time. For example, while I lay unshowered on my sofa stuffing cereal into my mouth who knows what wonderful, amazing and possibly weird things are going on all around the world right now?
I mean, I’m a big big fan of browsing the internet for the weird and wacky things that some people in this world can do, but I never stop to think about when they do these things, you know? You see a video on YouTube or a picture on Reddit and it’s some completely awesome thing that someone has done and I never really think more into it than that. But what about right now?

As I’m sat here, there are people in this world who are saving lives, bringing little babies into the world, breaking world records and a million other totally awesome things and I’m sat writing a blog alone in my room. Now that’s not to say that everyone else is doing something miraculous, far from it, I’m sure there are also people who are so drunk right now they couldn’t say their own name, people having sex right this second, people going to and from work, eating a sandwich, having a shower, playing games, the list is pretty much endless.

It’s probably just me but I think it’s absolutely mind blowing to think of the fact that as I’m eating a sandwich, there’s a man right this second floating around the international space station performing research that could aid future space exploration, as I cycle to work every morning there’s doctors performing ground breaking surgeries somewhere out there, as I’m texting my friends and watching a TV show there’s probably another person, maybe even only a mile away, having the best, or maybe worst moment of their life! It truly opens my mind to the wonder of what’s out there and how important every second of our lives can be.

I mean think about it, we’ve all had them conversations with our friends, “Where were you when…?” It’s those types of questions that I love the most because they really do show the diversity of the world we live in. I had one with a few close friends about a year ago asking where we all were when Michael Jackson died, and the variety of people’s stories, even close friends, are just amazing! Me for example, I used to do a lot of musical theatre, and I remember a bunch of us being sat in the green room back stage before a show and a friend of mine ran in with a tear in her eye and announced the news right there and then. One of my friends told me that he overheard of the news whilst at a restaurant with his family and girlfriend and the couple at the next table over loudly mentioned it to the waiter. My other friend told me that she heard the news via a text as she was sat in bed reading a book getting ready for an early night’s sleep.

The fact that three close friends who have quite similar interests and hobbies, who all grew up in the same town not too far from each other all had such varied tales of hearing the same news at the same time is something I find completely amazing in it’s own right.

And when you really think about it, it doesn’t have to be something so big and historical, it could just as easily be something as simple and mundane as nipping to the shops, or talking to a family member on the phone, and at that exact same moment billions of people all around the world are all living their own individual lives, walking their own paths and making choices.

Now, given that all over the world people are living completely different lives to yours, some rich some poor, some dying some just being born, some lives kick starting some lives falling apart, I still like to think that at least one person, someone somewhere, might possibly be doing the exact same thing as me right this very second.

But anyway, enough rambling for one night, just some food for thought!

RE