To anyone who may have been waiting for me to actually update this, I must apologize. I'd meant to make this a weekly or twice weekly thing, but I've been distracted by a little game called Elder Scrolls: Skyrim. By distracted I do mean that it's pretty much taken all of my waking time when I've not been otherwise busy with real world activities.
For those of you who live under a rock and aren't familiar with the game, Skyrim, I'll give a little information without giving away anything spoilers. In the beginning, you're given a chance to create your character from a blank slate. Everything right down to your appearance is up to you. You can be a magician, a warrior-tanky-soaky-meat-shield-guy, a stabby-stabby thiefy type, or a combination of all three. In terms of customization, it really gives you an amazing template to work with. Anyone who knows and loves the word "hybrid" will thoroughly enjoy themselves.
But the most amazing aspect of this game, in my eyes, is the sheer enormity of the "world". When I say it is massive, I truly mean it. You're in a little piece of the bigger world called Skyrim. It's an impressive piece of northern real estate divided between 9 major holds. You could spend hours simply running around admiring the amount of artistic detail that's gone into just showing us what Skyrim looks like; and I have. But it got me thinking about something that has stuck in my head these past days. The world is really big, isn't it?
The answer is no. The world is absolutely minuscule in a cosmic sense. We're a tiny blue planet in a universe the size of which is difficult to comprehend. But like we should with many things, let's scale the world down to a size we can wrap our heads around. I'll give you a minute to get there while I talk about something else.
Has anyone tried those Oreo Klondikes? They're really freakin' good. I'm not sure they taste like Oreos, but damn. Not that I should be eating those sugar doom blocks to begin with. Bad Hoody, bad!
Are you there yet? Good. So our world, you see, is really huge too. I don't believe many people think about it anymore. We're spoiled by cars, trains, airplanes, even bikes give us quite a bit of mobility. Our perspective of the world shrinks as we realize we have the means to travel almost anywhere in the blink of an eye. But remember when you were a kid, and this world was truly, honest to goodness big? Walking up the street was a big deal because it was so far away, and holy crap a trip to the mall?! THE MALL IS LIKE A FIFTEEN MINUTE DRIVE AWAY. WOW! Yeah, that feeling.
Do you let yourself get swept up in that sense of wonderment anymore? Most of us don't, at least not for long enough to matter. Take a walk through the woods. Sit at the top of a hill and stare up at the sky. Hell, just pay attention to how far you're actually driving when you take a trip to the grocery store. You're a walking paradox, humans. You can be so big while being so, so small. Remember yourself when you were so young and the world was so big and you'll realize how far you've come in your life and how far you have to go. Get some perspective.
Oh, and that big world we live in? It's getting kind of trashy. Look behind you. See that pile of Mountain Dew bottles in the corner of your world? Stop treating the world like your room. Clean it up. Go hug a goddamn tree and commune with nature or something.
Oh, and go get a job you tree-hugging hippies.
Yes, small update is small. Deal with it.
Hoody out.
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