Hey all, been a while, I know. Well anyways, I’ve just had a rather abstract thought, and I’d like to see if I can run with it as I haven’t had the urge to write anything lately. So bear with me, it probably won’t be any good, but I’m going to give it a shot.

It’s strange, how each individual person thinks of humanity as a whole. We are nearly 8 billion strong, growing exponentially, and stuck on a wet rock flying through a incomprehensibly vast area of mostly nothing. Yet, when it comes to the thoughts of one on the totality of the rest of humans on this planet, there have been dozens of beautiful, dark, even insane observations. The fact that you, me, everyone exists in their own universe, perceiving things like no one else can, makes thinking of us as a part of a whole, a bit uncomfortable. So in my opinion, I’d like to think of people as different scents, and no I’m not referring to b.o. or fancy perfumes, or even deodorant. No each person can be objectified as a unique scent. And just like scents, some are wonderful, others sickening. Some scents blend together and make something better than when they were apart. On the other hand, there are scents that are good on their own, but mixed together, they become awful, toxic, and even deadly. Imagine if you could perceive these scents that represented the person in front of you. Who they are, what they do, are they compatible as a friend? A lover? Do they reek of the stench of death, have they taken a life? Will they? Maybe yours? You could be able to tell all of this from the scent of a person. I know that it is a quite out there, so far as fictional comparisons go, but just imagine it.

If we were all able to know a person with one whiff. I realize that it probably sounds awful to most. You’d go through life looking, waiting for the perfect scent to match and meld with yours. I mean, I know that life is complicated as is, but I feel like it would be just as complicated in my imaginary reality. Everything would take on a more sinister turn. You could tell who is trustworthy, and who would stab you in the back at the drop of a pin. Yet, it would make things a bit simpler in other aspects. You’d no longer have to waste time on someone or something that you know won’t work out. But then it also gives you a choice to defy your sense of smell. Go after people, things that you already know aren’t any good for you. I mean, in that respect, not much would be all that different would it? Instead of trusting our “gut instincts” we would be trusting, or fighting, this all knowing sense of smell. You could tell yourself that the junior that’s been assigned to you at work isn’t worth the effort the second you smell them. But you could also, despite the overwhelming odds, say that with the right advice and training, they could even surpass your own abilities.

People themselves are more mailable than we are lead to believe. Not many people can change who they are in mere moments, but people can, and will ultimately change. Not a single person on earth has not changed their being throughout their life. You change when you get a job, you change when you become a parent, you change when you become a friend. No one has ever been the same person they were as a youth, when their time runs out. So why wouldn’t this apply to my make believe world. We know that life is certainly not easy. We know that not everything will go the way we want it to. Yet, we still trudge on. Granted, there are many people who when confronted by this ugly truth, and the ultimate cruelty that mankind is capable of, can’t continue to March forwards in their own life. There was a time in the not so distant past where I was one of them. Trying minimally to continue going forwards, but continuously sinking deeper and deeper into the quicksand that is the negatives in life. No matter how much I wanted to change, or for it all to be over, without action, no change is possible. Of course changing one’s self willingly is probably the most difficult task known to man. Sure, we change every day based on experiences in our perception, but most are not manual changes, but more of automatic changes made even without your knowing or understanding.

Again, some people, some things, just go so well together, it’s like they never existed apart. On the other hand, their compatibility is like a snowball in a pizza oven, they just had no chance of working together from the start. The same is with scents that we find enticing, exciting, comforting, energizing, uplifting, disgusting, painful, nauseating, depressing, hurtful, bearable, uncomfortable, apprehensive, all emotions. These scents change, with time, with strength, with various combinations, the way the wind blows. So too are people just as changing. A single variable in our daily life can upend decades of who we’ve become. The loss of a loved one, the promotion you’ve been after for years, a new friend you met by getting out of your comfort zone. There are such intricacies in both human behaviors and scents, that no one person could comprehend all of them. This is why, sometimes, we should be happy that we don’t have some kind of omniscient sense of other people, because we as humans get confused and tricked a bit too easy. We oft choose to follow our heart, or our head on any given day, though one makes no sense to the other.

Thank you for letting me vent like that, it has been too long since I’ve had that empty feeling in my head from going on a tirade of near nonsense. Now, don’t expect this to mean I’m back, not like I used to anyways. When I have that spark of creativity deep in my skull, I’ll write. Just as it always should have been.