The Bottom Floor

I decided to stay on the ground today. Not because I’m tired of the roof or anything but because being on the roof made me think about the ground. It’s really amazing to think, when you’re on the first floor, how many tons of material are directly above your head. To some it may inspire fear, but to me it inspires trust. Rather, it draws out the trust that I was feeling implicitly into an explicit fasion.

You see, people can (and are) scared about things like rooves (and on an unrelated note: hooves). ‘What if it fell on me’? One might ask (If one were so inclined to not be a number and instead be an entity with a voice [but there would still be one One {There can be only One/one? <does One/one = 1?>}]). I don’t often think of a ceiling possessing the potential of falling on me (though that’s what potential energy is all about [It could be what a potential enemy is all about too]). I mostly think of a ceiling as being that wonderful thing that always stays up. We trust our ceilings, and we have very good reasons to (they don’t lie to us or steal our ice cream when we’re not looking [usually]). Simply by walking under a ceiling we are trusting that it is a stable thing. We almost never think about it (we almost never think about gumdrops either [most of us almost never think.]). Only when we do think about it do we call to mind our trust and doubt it.

This isn’t to say that doubting it is a bad thing, and I think a truly good person constantly brings to mind things they believe in or trust and doubt them. Try to tear your core beliefs apart. If you suddenly realize you no longer fully can logically back up your own beliefs, you’ve just transcended a bit (does disbelieving a belief in transcention help you transcend? [I disbelieve this stupid sentence.]). Always trusting a ceiling to stay up will probably work for you. However, always trusting that a dictator is taking the best path for you may not. If you’re raised to implicitly trust what another person says (or another thing does [or that these captions are always funny]) you’re probably not going down a very good path (think NAZIs or inquisitors [or MTV]).

This isn’t always the case, of course. If the good priest is leading his/her following, and he/she is always doubting his/her own core beliefs, he/she might be leading them down a good path. They don’t have to doubt if someone is doing it for them (beneficially [and how can they really know? {Unless they doubt their good priest <Blasphemy!>}]).

It’s good to think for yourself in those regards. Learning to doubt the ceiling and asserting your trust in the structures around you help excercise your mind and give you good mental excercise for when you doubt things that are a little less definite than a well-built ceiling (like people [or books {or not-so-well-built ceilings}]).

Please pause for a moment of doubt… (is water actually good for you?).. … … … … … … … Yes. I’m going to drink some water.