OK, so the animals have their fair share of species' that are born "sticky-beaks", case in point : the bird is on the floor of the cage in the extreme near corner watching me type...whenever I get home from somewhere, the cat needs to know what I have in my bag, and the fish gives the googly-eye whenever anyone is on or near the computer..or maybe he's just begging for pellets? But why do we humans feel this strong urge to know EVERYTHING that's going on????
Come on, those of you who say you don't pry or gossip, YOU ARE LYING!
It's just in our nature really. The papers, magazines, TV, internet, are all full of some scandal or another on a daily basis. The popular media simply wouldn't have it at all if it wasn't in demand. Who hasn't logged into a social networking site and "snooped" in someone's profile or at their status message? I can freely admit, I have! As I'm sure others' have done to mine also. It's a complusion sometimes, the need to see for ourselves that our seemingly boring lives are not that bad after all, and just for a bit of juicy gossip!
Free-to-air soap operas you could call them in some instances! Full-on comedic dramas in some, quite entertaining really, reading day after day someone's struggle to fill their quota of "LOOK AT ME! PAY ATTENTION TO ME!"
It's like the old traffic accident adage...you know you really shouldn't look, but you just can't look away!!!!
While I'm on a rant...what on earth possesses a complete stranger to ask you for money? Or more to the point, what makes them think that everyone in the world is dumb enough to do it and that they're smarter than everyone else to actually pull it off?
Geez if I had half the balls they think they have, I'd be doing it too! We all would, let's face it! I could easily pay off my wedding dress in record time!
Why does someone who already seems to blog a couple of times a day, about nothing in particular, suddenly blog more than 6 times a day, coincidentally just after they have been a "blog of note"? Fame going to their heads just a wee bit? But, strangely enough again, I can't bring myself to stop reading the damn thing!!!
Why do WE say sorry when someone bumps into US? Or , in my case, why do we apologize to inanimate objects that we bump into LOL? Why do we say "excuse me" only after the burp and not before, as to give a warning of the rudeness to come? Why do we say we're "running to the shops" or "running the kids to school" when we drive there? Why do we find ourselves singing along to songs we hate? Why does it seem when you're straining to hear a noise in the middle of the night, that you hear better with your eyes open? Why do kids like "why?" questions so much, and do they have some secretly hidden file somewhere of key questions they must ask? Is there some agency somewhere that grades their performance? i.e. the real stumpers like "Mummy, why can't the Sun be pink?" or the ones that last forever, like : Q."Why do I have to have a shower?"A. "because you are dirty and have to wash yourself" Q. "But WHYYYYYY?"A. "Argghhhh, just 'cos I said so!!" Q. "Why do you always say that Mummy?"
There are just too many questions!!!! But hopefully it'll mean now I can stop all the damn thinking that's been rattling around in my head.... Why do people say that, there's only a large sponge-like material and blood and stuff in there, it wouldn't rattle!!!
But we can't ever have all the answers to life's questions, but it sure can be fun trying to answer them!!!
WHY????
