want to know what i wonder? okay.. at this moment there are approximately 6.92 billion people in the world, i could be more accurate with the number but im not quite sure which website is the most accurate. the US has approximately 311 million and canada has approximately 34 million. toronto has over 2.5 million and hamilton has around 500 thousand, rough rounding. isn't that amazing? who even started that saying 'small world'? i think they had their demographic stats wrong or possibly they were crazy. the world isn't small and its not calm. the planet may spin in silence around the sun but the lives on this planet are far from silent or uneventful. this world is busy. all the 6.92 billion people in the world all having their own lives, their own brains, their own routines. they exert their own actions and thoughts.
okay so.. again, hamilton is not that big of a city.. but i think the number is still significant to the people who live here.
today i was walking around downtown and i went to visit my dad at work. my dad works in one of the tallest buildings in downtown hamilton. while i waited for my dad to finish up his work for the day, i just waited by the window. staring down at the city actually made me wonder. how can so much go on in a fairly insignificant city in a relatively unpopulated country? hundreds of cars were piling out of parking lots (it was around 4:30/5 when everyone was leaving work). cars were moving slowing on the main streets and i can imagine the speed, or lack of, drives the anxious people insane as they are trying to get home. im not even sure if they were going home or who they would be going home to, maybe their families, their friends, their pets. i just know the streets were busy and the mall was busy. the city was busy. and even when everyone goes home, i dont think you leave the busyness. its always there.
ahhh its insane. there are so many people and so many different thoughts, plans, routines, interests, experiences. no one person can live the same life as someone else. can we understand anyone but ourselves? even if you find your life calm or boring, its not life in general that boring. its not your city, country or town thats boring and calm. the city is busy and everyone is significant in making it busy. maybe if you find your city/life boring you are just too self centred to realize how busy it actually is. everyones thoughts, their energy, their actions - none ever silent or lost.
oh wow..its strange what staring out a window of a building overlooking the city does to my brain. i like thinking.
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