Even though I struggle with the lack of transport to my city, I am glad
we have not invented teleportation just yet. I'm no scientist (which is
ironic because I am a data scientist), so I have no interest in the how.
I am pretty sure some drunk physicist with their lab coat who have
fallen asleep by a desk full of books will wake up at 3am and scream
"Eureka!" one day, then design a first prototype before the eviction
notice due to repeating noise complaints reach him thanks to the slow
bureaucracy in this country.
During the day, nothing was ever out of the ordinary. I studied at a
boarding school for five years so I probably know every crack on the
wall and every scratch on the ground already. (Let's ignore the
implication that I have stared at walls and the floor long enough to
memorize such patterns.) So it had to be something wildly different from
the daily routine for me to feel any fascination or excitement.
When someone went to the closest water fountain to drink water, it was
kind of a tradition that people nearby started to imitate water sounds.
And that was the funniest thing ever. It made it near impossible to
drink from these fountains because my cheek muscles usually got too
tense from smiling. The weirder part is that, the funniness completely
disappeared as soon as I stopped drinking water... until I went back
just to burst out laughing.
Who knows? I don't. Not enough time has passed to complete a full
science degree since my latest mention that I'm no scientist; so to no
one's surprise, I am still no scientist. Although, I am convinced that
the phenomenon is due to us conditioning ourselves.
QUICK! DON'T THINK OF A BIRD! And suddenly, you can only think of
a bird. That's exactly the issue. You know the stakes are high, so the
only thing you concentrate on is: "Don't laugh." Then you do. Then
everyone laughs. You don't.
Sorry for the jumpscare there. I shouldn't have used the D-word so
abruptly. But yes, the same type of conditioning self should be the case
when one visits the, uh, professional sculpturer who happens to work
inside a mouth. After all, there are metal hooks and tubes and fire and
lasers and weird looking instruments inside your mouth. The professional
have very little space to work in and they have to be super precise in
their movement. One laugh could result in an irreversible mistake in
which the tooth is treated.
antiphona on 16 June 2023
I feel that my knowledge of the world has profoundly decreased after reading this.