I did not know there was whole theorem around it. Until just ten minutes ago, while I went on a wild goose chase of reading about our ancestors. It's pretty cool what can happen over a long enough timeline. It's called the Infinite monkey theorem and it's absolutely true. If you are willing to entertain it, here is a wild idea. It took about seven million years to evolve from our great great ancestors. Give or take a few thousand, who's counting at this point. Then it took Shakespeare about a half a century to write his complete work. So does that prove the theory? Seven million is not infinite and I've bent the theorem quite a bit and there has been more than one monkey involved. By the end of it, the monkey is not the same either, don't need to say much about the typewriter. But technically Shakespeare's entire work has been written. It's quite fascinating to think about.
What now?
After that masterpiece of an idea, maybe even my first original thought? I'm pretty sure someone else has thought of it too. Where do I even go from here? It's surprising how the mind works given some free time to stare at the wall. It's been only a week into removing YouTube from my life, it was the last remaining source of social media. I've been able to free myself all other forms of social media or they don't seem to have as much of a grip on my life. It's strange I've turned the boat 180 degrees. I've gone from consuming to creating content, turns out I enjoy it way more. Plus I leave feeling better than I did before the act.
Wander
I forgot what it felt like to let the mind wander. Sure, it wanders into some dark places that I have been trying to hide under the rug but it also wanders into areas that you have never been to before or in a long fucking while. I need a constant reminder that the avoidance of pain is also pain. When you avoid looking within for all the pain you think you'll find, which there is no shortage of, you also miss out on all the silly, fun and outright weird thoughts that call your mind home. It's not fun at all, looking at the ugly parts of your mind, but I guess it's worthwhile if it means this monkey will complete his entire work that probably started seven or eight million years ago.