Sunday, March 31, 2013

Really Smart People

     As I write this little blog. I have to think about the really smart people out there that made it even possible. Think about it. Someone had to think of it. Make a prototype. Then make it happen. All  the aspects of modern life are really great. We have just grown to be used to it. We all get depressed about things. At least I do. Mad or disappointed about things. As we go to the bathroom. Go to the fridge. Have the air conditioning or heat on. Turn on the stove. Get a glass of water from the sink.
     The highest kings and queens did not have these luxuries two hundred years ago. Sure they had a lot of help with things. Nothing however to what almost everybody has now. Think I need a checkup from the neck up. We should be thrilled to have the lives we live. I am one of the first ones to be a whiner. My bad.
     Only as far back as my father things have changed. He actually didn't have city water until 1957. They had pumps, wells, water heater, and pipes. Had plumbing. Coal heat. When it the last time anyone you know had to shovel coal to fire a furnance? I am however old enough to remember my grandmother sending me to the basement to bank the fire in the coal furnance. Looking back that was a fun thing for me to do. Taking part in something that needed done.
     I guess that we all have a big thank you to go out to the really smart people who have made a big difference in life. Makes me realize that I am just a little dummy that whines too much. I guess that I just try to fine tune everything. Really need to fine tune myself.
     Let's say it is two hundred plus years ago. It is night. So it is dark without a candle or something. I have no TV. No computer, No books or magazines. No phone. No bike, No car. No nothing as far as we are concerned. How did people stand it? What made the change? How come this all happened over the last couple hundred years? The population has increased a great deal in that time period too. Is it harvest time for some aliens? They did start showing up after the A bomb.
     Again I think that we have to thank those people who came up with all the ideas. I am so dumb I would either be relying on sticks and stones or would have been eaten by some wild animal. Can barely make it on a job that a moron could do. Or a moron can make. We have to make the best of what we have. Have to behave. And don't forget to be nice. It's a lot bigger than me.