A List of Small Life Questions

These are not questions of world-shattering importance and they are not of great significance, but I still wonder about things. Life questions, small life questions in this case, but certainly worth pondering.

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Why on earth would you want to climb Mount Everest? I watched the movie ‘Everest’ again, aptly named, and I think it every time. Why, oh why would you want to undertake such a miserable climb? Home, hearth, family, everything is perfectly fine and yet you stubbornly trudge up that icy slope. I wonder about it.

Or how it comes that navels are those fiddly little things. You can't call them pretty, with a bit of luck you've just managed to get through life well knotted. And with a bit of bad luck, it attracts lint. I’ve heard that last part. Just like ears, but I’ll save that for later.

You have those resealable bags, of which you know you will never reseal because the contents simply aren't of the resealable kind. So why bother to press and fiddle with such a little edge, manufacturers? By the way, I would also like to talk to the packers of filter coffee sometime.

And then I flop on the couch, grab my phone to shamelessly do a round of shopping. Familiar? I thought so. I see my object of desire in the online shop, I go to click and maybe buy, and it’s sold out. But as in: it’s just listed there too. Sold out, out of stock, no longer available, nada. Noble retailers, why are you so mean and leave this up? I find it bordering on deceitful.

Everyone seems to have all sorts of tricks to hide pits from avocados. I don’t. It’s delicious, but it sticks to everything that can stick. And I can never get that thing neatly into the trash can; I have to let it bounce off the counter at least thirty times, pick it up from the floor at least five times, and then it slips through my palm while I’m trying to control it. The whole kitchen is under the avocado, I’m under the avocado… The avocado pit and I are not a match.

And perhaps the most important: why on earth are there still white toilet brushes? I mean: we all know they come in black too. Black is known as a color where you see nothing. The last time I checked, well… You get my point. I don’t understand it.

So far, it’s just a wait for the continuation, but rest assured: that list develops a little more every day.