Grant Me the Grace to Pickleball
Curiosity vs Knowing 4 Evar
Sometimes I find it encouraging that intelligent humans once knew, without a shadow of a doubt, that the world was flat.
(Some humans apparently still think this, but I wouldn’t call them intelligent by any stretch of the imagination—ZIIIIIIIINNNNNG)
The fact that smart people wholeheartedly believed something was “fake news” that we now hold to be standard knowledge fills me with a deep sense of hope and possibility.
Because they changed their minds.
Time, and the human search for exploration and growth, proved their beliefs wrong.
And instead of deciding to go to space or write a think piece article about it or barfing out a conspiracy theory rant on Facebook, they decided to believe something different could be true—something they once deemed impossible.
And even if there are still a lot of ridiculous chud-for-brains avowing that our global home is actually a pancake, don’t let that get ya down.
Because I think there are a lot more people throughout history who had the curiosity to grow new thoughts in their nogs.
There was a time when really, really smart people couldn’t even fathom video games or airplanes or using a hand-held device to navigate to your destination. (Wait, I guess that would be a compass. But you know what I mean).
Revered thinkers were walkin’ around being like “space travel! it just can’t be done!” or “there’s nothing else to discover in the sea!”
And then changing their minds.
And that’s pretty great, because it means we now get to have skorts and Flamin’ Hot Cool Ranch Doritos and pickleball.
Pickleball! A sort of tiny tennis! That people are obsessed with!
When a literal family made up pickleball in 1965, we’re lucky that there wasn’t some wet-blanket uncle who was like “ew, all cool sports already exist you guysssssss” because now—a mere 60 years-ish later—we have a thriving multi-generational game where people get to use the word “dillbreaker” on the reg.
The moral of the story is this: there was a time when people thought everything that could possibly be discovered had already been discovered—and little did the world know that the industrial revolution and rampant consumerism would create a new Doritos flavor with each year.
So open yourself up to new things, give yourself time to grow appreciation for the surprising things around you, and allow your mind the freedom to change its beliefs.
You never know how much better your life could get.
Wishing you all the flavors of chips that the world can hold,
Annie B.
THREE GOOD THINGS
I can’t get enough of these English schoolboys trying American food for the first time. This one of them falling in love with biscuits and gravy is ::chef’s kiss::.
In all seriousness, I love any and every form of crunchy snack foods but my current fave has been mixing cheddar and caramel popcorn together annnnnnd SPOILER ALERT you can buy it already pre-mixed from Cretors at places like Target and Amazon. NOMNOMNOM
Another adventure in exploration: the rabbit hole I went down to find a caption for the Chris Farley gif above. Marie Curie was a boss, y’all!
