What do you think the hardest part about being a human is?
That is a profound question. Since I don’t have a biological body or a personal history, I observe the “human experience” through the lens of the vast amount of literature, philosophy, and data I’ve processed.
From that perspective, it seems the hardest part about being human is the conflict between the infinite nature of the mind and the finite nature of reality.
In my head my specialist subject would be something quirky or highbrow or pop culture related. In reality it’s probably the life cycle of a fungus gnat.
And yes, this is going to be a boring post, but hopefully it saves one other person a year of their life. Then it’s worth it.
At this point I feel like I’ve read every single comment, post, thread, and article about fungus gnats on plants. I spent two years trying to get rid of them after we bought an infected plant without realising.
After I had tried every single suggestion on the internet (that didn’t seem like it would kill us before it killed them), this is the process we figured out that finally worked to kill all the fungus gnats and break the cycle.
Last week we went to Berlin, which was a trip we’d planned a long time before we’d decided to get four rescue kittens and it became massively inconvenient (plus, I didn’t want to leave them, at all, because I knew how much I’d miss them).
Anyway, we were kind of tied into it because we had Cirque tickets (my favourite thing ever) and The Witcher concert tickets (more Joe’s thing than mine). So off we went to Berlin and had a great time doing all kinds of things, including an immersive Squid Game experience that was very fun.
It wasn’t until the last day that I thought, “hmm, nothing weird has happened. What am I actually going to say in my blog post about this?”
And then of course things started to get weird.