What Are the Awesomest of the #1000AwesomeThings? #NealPasricha #TheBooksOfAwesome

'Comedian' (I call him `coz his books are Dewey-Decimal'd "780") Neal Pasricha wrote--in his spare time--the 10-million-plus-hit-blog

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(there are probably way MORE than the thousand listed on THAT page, but '1000' is a good "foundation" ja?) which he wisely developed into some books.

In the first book, he naturally saved the BIGGEST awesome for last---"Remembering how lucky we are to be here right now," recounting how each of us used to be one of a bazillion sperm (but we were The Chosen One out of the bazillion); how that hinged upon not only our parents meeting, falling in love, making love & bearing each of us, but also the same thing for our grandparents, great-grandparents, Old West grandparents, Pilgrim grandparents, Renaissance grandparents, Viking colonial grandparents ... all the way back to our Ice Age grandparents, each falling in love, making love & bearing new life again & again & again that led to you.

And ALL THAT was predicated upon us being lucky enough to live on this ONE-&-ONLY LIFE-SUSTAINING PLANET IN ALL THE KNOWN UNIVERSE!

... so naturally that's the BIGGEST awesome, but the BEST awesome? I think it's "the smell of books." What do you think?

 

Amen Sister! Without The Thinking, the only understanding one could have of ANYTHING would be 'awe' (I know, maybe "ignorance is bliss" if it means that 'everything is awesome'; but--in reality--you DON'T want to think something is Awesome if it really ISN'T!)

But I wouldn't quite say that thoughts "are" your world; it's more like they 'color everything in your world' or they 'complete your world to the full' ... it's like air: air is 'everywhere in the world,' you can't exist without it & it fills all the space (on Earth) not filled with something else; but (luckily) air is NOT the entire world.

And--unlike air--thoughts CANNOT exist without 'things to think about.'