Brain Wave #28: The World is Empty

 Brain Wave #28: The World is Empty

I was on the bus on the way back from the gym the other day, looking outside the bus's window I see two people doing crack (I'm assuming it was crack): one was a guy who looked to be in his mid thirties, whereas the other looked like a very rough old looking woman, the two were sat on the stairs of the entrance of this sixth form (kinda like a "private" school) which is not that far from where I live. While obviously the school was closed because of Easter holiday, so the two wouldn't have been caught by staff or whatnot, it still made me think what on Earth made them choose that spot to do drugs, after all you're still in public, there is a pretty big park on the other side of the road, and the chance of a cop car passing by is definitely non-zero.
That whole situation made me think of (and bare with me with how I'm about to say this) how any place on the planet really just has situational importance. I mean to think about it that is true with anything and anywhere on Earth, because it's us humans who give "meaning" to anything and it only matters to us insignificant creatures that the universe doesn't care about, such and such. But if we just use our metaphorical lens to just look into "what we only care about" everything loses value as soon as someone decides to stop giving it a meaning. And again, I know that it sounds really banal and it's quite a basic concept to grasp, but the implication of this is that everything and anything stops being meaningful to the human's eye, even in this small little "reality" that we put ourselves into, the one in which we give value to what we interact with in life.

It is this said implication that I wanted to talk about: I personally think that realising that everything and anything loses its meaning once we look outside this "bubble" that we constructed ourselves really makes one realise how empty the world can really feel (I guess that I really needed to put the title in there). Just close your eyes and think about the whole world evolving in the next 5 seconds in which you have your eyes closed: animals running around hunting or being hunted, waves crashing into coasts where rocks are slowly eroding away, tectonic plates moving disparately causing whole mountain ranges to bulge, winds travelling at such high speeds affecting numerous fields of nature; but at the same time you also have machines running nonstop, neon lights artificially lighting hundreds of millions of closed spaces, fans and heaters keeping people's temperature set to survive the rest of the day. You might think that I probably said a whole bunch of nothing (and you're probably right, I always do!) but with everything going on just every second in the whole planet, it really makes you think how silent and loud, fast and slow, bright and dark, intense and calm, and everything you can think of, the world can be. However, just imagine a sort of "post-apocalyptic" world in which the entirety of humanity is just wiped away, but everything that's artificial is still left on to do its thing,,,lemme tell you, in my opinion not much would change the second after everyone is wiped away, so wouldn't you wanna just sit anywhere you could to just do crack?
The point of what I'm trying to say, is that we sort of live in that post-apocalyptic world, simply because as humans, most of us only care about the things that we consider "important" the moment they need to be "important". Wait...does this whole thing connect to my whole philosophy of how everyone give too much importance to things that are not that important? And how understanding that really makes your life easier by not giving a fuck about things and become "enlightened" and realise your life goals and whatever the fuck? Maybe, maybe.

I have to be honest, the whole post-apocalyptic metaphor I almost completely forgot about, and guess what that was my best example of how to explain myself. SHIT WAIT-

I've been to New York City in 2022, and I've been to a couple of places in Ontario in 2024, and I'm not gonna lie this shit (from the prospective of an European, but I'm sure a lot of people might agree) is the most depressing place ever. With "shit" I mean NA. I seriously don't understand what the fuck is wrong with anyone who decided to "urban plan" those places, because I swear to god, if you go to NA and just leave the city THERE IS ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOTHING. NOTHING. Nothing going on, no places to do shit and whatever. Am I exaggerating? Maybe. Am I really wrong? NAH. I was staying in a hotel in Toronto (Don Valley Hotel, definitely didn't spend like 10mins. looking for it) that had a supermarket nearby, your cheeky Tim Horton's just across the road, some museums and shit in "walking" distance, which me and my mom walked to some because we're normal people, but other than that it's just a 30mins. drive to the city where there is actually stuff going on. The biggest thing that annoys me though: is the fact that me and my mom even in 35 C weather still decided to walk in the depressing, empty, concrete heavy streets of Canada, which obviously nobody does because they have their big cars that exhaust their big fossil fuels just to go to the fucking supermarket or their boring ass office work, where there isn't much going on either, because you're just stuck in an artificially lit room for the next 9 hours of your day, for 5 days a week for the next 50 years of your life, simply because humans decided to make people's lives miserable.
Phew,,,did I just go on a rant against the entirety of NA for no reason? No, my reason was to have fun.
But what I'm trying to say, is that a place like the US or Canada, which are the only American countries I've been to so far, do this job exceptionally well to make the whole world feel empty and meaningless, trying to give themselves a meaning just for copium.

I lowkey kinda lost my line of thought there at the end, trying to prove a point with an example I just remembered, to then kinda talk about something else and trying to circle it back lmao. So yeah, on an ending note, just know that the world is empty and worthless with or without us, and just so y'know there ain't really anything to change it.

Good bai for now, poposwag.