In the bright light which shines just above my head, I spend the time washing my hair, scrubbing my body, and thinking deeply, as I'm sure everyone else does. My mind wanders, and I think for a moment about the beauty of the world. How, when it comes down to it, everything is beautiful, even if no one can see it or appreciate it.
This thought brings me to watch the water fall in front of me. I can't see the individual drops, but my eyes can catch the glint of the light on the water itself, and the overall look of the small, constantly changing lines that my mind captures. Together, it reminds me of television static, and I smile to myself a bit.
This thought cascades into a new one. Humans have evolved so quickly with technology. Our sciences have advanced faster than anyone could have guessed it would. I imagine how insane our electronics would look to anyone from only a century ago, someone who could very well still be alive today. Imagine if they had seen a phone, or if, in their time, they had all the same equipment and understanding as we have now. How much further in the future would we be today? Where would we be?
These thoughts fade, as they normally do when I turn off the hot water that didn't exist until a couple hundred years ago. I step out of the shower, suddenly taking in everything again. I live with so many things that enhance my life, things that I couldn't imagine being without. Yet, there was once a time when everything we have today wasn't even a dream or imagination. I wonder, then, if perhaps the technology we'll have mere decades from now will be the same. We all imagine holograms and food processors, but if we can imagine those things, does that mean that what we do discover will be even more amazing?
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