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There are some posts through­out a blogger’s time­line that beg for revi­tal­iza­tion or per­haps, as in this case, a chance to revisit and expand upon. Around two months ago, Odd Thoughts was posted for one sim­ple and yet obvi­ous rea­son; for me, to share with you, a few thoughts that ram­ble and bounce along in my mind.

Some are quirky, oth­ers just down­right silly and implau­si­ble, yet as a whole they are a col­lec­tion of ran­dom spurts that to some might seem inco­her­ent or use­less in some capac­ity but to oth­ers are the key towards hap­pi­ness and con­tent­ment, a break from the per­ils of real­ity. To me, these thoughts, while not nec­es­sar­ily life chang­ing by any means, are still impor­tant to keep a sense of san­ity in a world where seri­ous­ness is abound.

Every­day we are faced with that per­son who we come across, whom at first glance, seems pouty or sour in some way. You know who I’m talk­ing about because these indi­vid­u­als always seem down-and-out, rest­less or grumpy. Our first gut reac­tion to this might be to either ignore the per­son in ques­tion or attempt to make them smile, to fill their mind with lyri­cal and hope­fully humor­ous non­sense that actu­ally serves a pur­pose; to enlighten their hid­den but whim­si­cal self.

Life is too seri­ous to not take a step back, breath in and laugh at your­self and laugh with oth­ers, it’s impor­tant to not only your own sense of mind but to oth­ers. Laugh­ter and humor is in fact con­ta­gious and for each per­son that smiles and shrugs off any feel­ing of despair­ity, solem­ness or begrudge­ful thoughts, will emerge from their shell and real­ize that life is much too short to for­get about what makes us feel good inside.

On that note, I’d like to share with you some addi­tional “Odd Thoughts” and if you’d like, please share some of your own or you could even answer a few.

If George Jet­son and Homer Simp­son were in a box­ing match, who would win?

If you woke up tomor­row and every­thing was made of clay, would you be afraid to shave?

Why isn’t there a jump rope made of licorice?

Why is children’s music (like the Itsy, Bitsy Spi­der) typ­i­cally used as creepy back­ground music in hor­ror movies?

Why do some peo­ple take care of grass as a plant when there’s plenty of it outside?

If paper can cut as eas­ily as it does, why hasn’t some­one come out with non-paper-cutting paper?

What would Orco (from He-Man) look like with­out his cape?

What did Tashi Sta­tion look like? Luke never got the chance to pick up some power converters.

If you could choose any movie to be mag­i­cally trans­ported into, what would you choose?

If Nig­gles are Noogles and Pas­tries are Grob­bles, what is a TiddlyWiki?

If tomor­row they rename Fire­fox to Fire­cow, would peo­ple still use it?