The Post About Everything

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#flower #flowerphotography #summer #beauty #creativecommons

This shouldn't be hard. Not like post about something and nothing.

Let me start with a #song. Here we go!

_{A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh
A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh
A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh
A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh}

_{In the jungle, the mighty jungle
The lion sleeps tonight
In the jungle the quiet jungle
The lion sleeps tonight}

They say you should always #stretch after you've woken. Before you rise up and start the day. To maintain mobility. They (I don't know who, just they) say it's good for you. Cats and dogs do it when they wake up. And sometimes they just wake up to stretch, nothing else.

They also say you should put some clothes on before you go outside. Especially if it's cold or too hot. To protect yourself from the #weather. Even though that varies. Some do just fine in tiny shorts when it's only 20°C. Others have to wear winter coat and gloves. But that's understandable as for instance in #Finland I hear the summer actually is winter pretending to be summer. But Finns are used to that. And that explains a lot.

So when you've stopped fiddling with things in your bed and decide to rise, you should put some clothes on, if not for your sake, for all the other people. Most prefer looking at you with the #cheaplabor #clothes on that some 10 year old girl or boy in Sri Lanka stitched together for you with less than minimum wage, than to see you without the rags you could have chosen for today. That is, try not to watch you hanging out everything you got. Man, put some clothes on.

You almost stumble over to the book you decided to start to read yesterday evening because you've had trouble sleeping, so you decided to not touch your phone, tablet, laptop, computer or any of the other technical devices you own (coffee machine with internet, your apartment windows showing you the 100 most popular scenery around the world from the web) and as you also try to avoid tripping over to your cats, you try to remember what the book was about and as you can't remember, you think that reading the book must have worked really well. Not remembering must mean you were sleeping.

As you are preparing breakfast for you and your cats and looking out of the window admiring the sunny, but windy day, you can't help thinking about the fact how some day the world will run out of oil and then people are really in deep shit because they realize they should have invented new and better ways to utilize solar and wind energy. And as your thoughts begin to wander to climate change, you realize that the coffee is almost over. Thank god there still is enough for couple of cups. Because that would be the end of everything if coffee would run out. You remind yourself to try to remember to buy more coffee.

You laugh to your toughs as you butter the bread and dig some frozen raw food from the fridge for your cats, as well as some cheap market cat food, because you realize that you don't actually believe in god and then you start thinking that if god exists although you don't believe in god, would god be so petty that not believing in god would send all the nonbelievers to hell when they die or somewhere not heaven. And all the wrong doers to heaven if they just believe. Well that sucks, you think. Out of spite you now do not want to believe in such petty god. Serves right to that entity!

Suddenly you remember that today is the day you need to water your #plants again with the home made so called miracle solution that should drive away the freaking unidentified flying objects that circle around your house plants, and although your #cats are really entertained because of the small things, you have made a firm decision that you really want to get rid of the tiny #UFO:s. Bugs just bug you.

On your way to the plants you never thought you could care so much for and to their #unwanted inhabitants, you put on some #random music to #dance to because the morning is starting to feel gloomy and everything is always better with some dance steps. You pick some herbs to put on your bread, water the plants, give the cats their food, but as you take the first bite from your bread you wonder how weird it tastes, a bit like steak tartare and you notice the disappointed expression on one of your cats face as it first stares at the bread on the bowl and the other cat eating the herbs from the bread and then you, obviously thinking that this would be a good time as any to kill you, their idiot slave. And you, still not completely realizing what has happened, take a sip of your coffee and when the disgusting taste of soap, food oil and horse shit reaches your tongue, you realize that no amount of dancing is going to help in this case to make the day great again.

After this, the only way must be up. You stare at your spouse, who obviously has not heard anything about putting at least some clothes on in the morning if there are no intentions on going back to the bed again, and you think if the only way is up, would this be a good time to go back to bed, not alone? But then you realize that removing the taste from your mouth is now your number one priority. Something some people never learn. #Prioritizing and putting containers, dishes and all kind of cups one inside another so they don't take so much space in the cupboard. Smaller ones inside the bigger ones, not the other way around. For some people, it's mission impossible. Their favourite toy as a child must have been a pounding bench, not a shape sorter toy. Your favourite toys were all those that made #animal noises.

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#owl #creature olio

After several cups of coffee (and orange juice, apple juice, milk, water, coca cola, pepsi, mouthwash, lingonberry jam, mint leaves) you are ready to go out. Work as usual. Closing the door behind you, you realize how old you are because despite the nakedness of your spouse, you are still thinking more about the awful taste that for two seconds was in your mouth and the lost sandwich, than the fact that there was an opportunity walking around you but naked.

On your way to work you listen the news and can't help wondering about the crazy #world. People driving their cars and taking the escalators to fitness centers where they run in one place on an electrical device, the world leaders refusing to work together and not realizing how we all have only this one planet, people throwing garbage out there to the nature, some people still denying that climate change is real, frantically work oriented people who think that making excessive amounts of money is the only way to live, people who go on and on about #blockchain, bitcoin or any #cryptocurrency they can think of being a hoax and a pyramid scheme, without even reading more about any of those and governments that have started to trample on basic human rights. Again everything leads to two thoughts in your mind. #Politics is horrendously two-faced and what is wrong with the #society?

And all the stories that make you think that the #sciencefiction horror scenarios are now true. Foundation, The Handmaid's Tale, Terminator, Moon, Westworld, The 100, Colony, Blade Runner, WALL-E, Matrix, 2001: A Space Odyssey and many more. Everything being possible to rich people but impossible to poor. Human cloning for profits. Eternal life for some, nothing for others. You being watched everywhere you go. Every bit of information that they can dig out of you, they will and it will be exploited, stored, downloaded and sold. Virtual reality created because the real world is too cruel to handle or because real life just isn't enough. Robots and AI taking over the world. And the most horrific thing of them all: a transparent screen and phone. You shiver with disgust. No to transparent phone.

You continue surfing to all those #socialmedia pages you are in so that your friends can ask you how are you and ease their minds there and then without ever seeing you or actually listening to you. A win-win situation you think. You never considered them to be your friends anyway. You think you should write a #blog post about it. To a social media site. About everything happening in the internet and people not being social at all. And by the way, that's a completely different thing if you write about it. Because this social media site that you are currently on, has some sense in it, you think. #Steem. Rewarding for liking, upvoting and being social. Oh, to get a #basicincome from writing your stupid thoughts to a social media site. That would be awesome, you think.

You are toying with the idea that you could just ramble and get paid for that. Enough. More than 10 cents per post. You are not sure did the makers of your clothes get as much per day as you did in Steem yesterday, although it was a tiny amount. You think you got more than they did. And you got to keep bathroom and coffee breaks whenever you wanted to. That troubles you a bit. But not too much. Enough for you to write your #opinion about it in some blog post or social media wall, but not that much that you would organize a protest because of terrible work conditions, child labor and minimum wage. You are tempted to use the #whomademyclothes hashtag in your indifferent statement, but you don't, because you hate people who #overusehashtags. #Hashtag.

Nothing to mention about work. It really was again business as usual. Programming, data salvaging, investing, trading, cooking, repairing, manufacturing, security, marketing, talking to people, poking at people, digging graves. What ever you do, you did that. You decide to walk home because it's such a wonderful weather and because they say walking is good for you and also good for the environment. Soft summer breeze and a beautiful sunset. You admire the #streetart around you. But suddenly the weather changes.

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#art #graffiti #winter #Tallinn

Installing summer to Finland has failed and now it's snowing. Oh well, better forget the outdoor #hobbies you had planned for this evening and just go #home, stalk people in the internet and hope something happens. Or hope that nothing happens. Because its the #optimism that kills people, never the #pessimism.

You look at the numerous Dapps there are in Steem and think about starting something new. Like adding content to DSound. But before that you just quickly look at few #YouTube videos. Numerous how to, tutorial and DIY videos, games, awesome animations, music videos and also cat videos.

You wake up from your YouTube limbo when you hear the front door close and your son comes home. "I better be a good parent and ask how his day was", you think, and you do that. You mentally pat yourself to the back, ask him couple of other questions and then start thinking of doing some yoga moves because they say it's good for you. But first you know what's even better for you. #Food.

Every time you eat you think about the words that were repeated to you by some idiot in grade #school: "Remember to eat everything from your plate because people in Africa are starving." And you laugh to it because you think that is the stupidest thing someone could ever say to a child. Why force #children take more than they want to eat? Every freaking time. How about not making food that tastes awful? How about using good ingredients? And how about not putting the blame on Finnish children because in some part of Africa children are starving because of the numerous small and bigger political and environmental rules made by the previous generations all over the world? Bad and selfish decisions by people born long before the child who doesn't want to eat. If someone means to say "Be thankful for your food", they should say so. Teaching about comparison, moderateness and deeds that are good for the environment and the whole world, does not begin by telling someone to finish their plate.

Thinking about school made you think about education. Learning something for fun. Doing something for yourself, not just courses that are important for work. Perhaps you want to refresh your language skills. Upprepa den underbara svenska grammatiken. Lerne wieder Deutsch oder quelques phrases en français. Then again it might be that after English, the most useful #languages are Spanish and Chinese. You make the resolution that #tomorrow you will check out available courses for Spanish and Chinese and that you will also make the time to go to the courses. Tomorrow. That is a good investment for your #future. Learning about #languages and #culture. Tomorrow. Now that you think about it, you remember that in some countries it is considered rude to finish your plate. Ah! Teachers. Ah! Parents!

You are sure that you never said to your son that he needs to eat everything on his plate because children in Africa are starving. Because you are not an idiot. Instead, you did bunch of other #mistakes when raising you child. But that's not on the table here. The children from #Africa are. Figuratively speaking. Not like you eat children from Africa. And you are sure you can find one person born in Africa, living in your hoods to back you up. Oh, how #funny #thoughts! Where do they lead you next?

You are looking at your list that has bunch of words left in it to use in a post. Any post. Some post. Like in a post about everything. And you decide to make a #poem of those last #words. You ignore the fact that you are a terrible poet and that there are people far worse critics than your own mother and just go for it.

Poem for Leftover words

In the gold age
When philosophy will be trending
And love is in the market
For every queer out there
Writing at home
About sex
Is the new black
Instead of travel
Or trading
– Insanewords

#Life keeps going on in circles.
Day after day.
#repetition
#everything

^{Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba
Sithi uhm ingonyama
Nants ingonyama bagithi baba
Sithi uhhmm ingonyama
Ingonyama
Siyo Nqoba
Ingonyama
Ingonyama nengw' enamabala}

Better sleep now.
They say it's good for you.

Poets of the Fall - Sleep

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