New things
Like baby's first shakey earthquake, for example
When was the last time you experienced something completely new? Today, write about that.
Just a bit ago, I felt my first big-enough-to-rattle-stuff-and-make-noise earthquake. It wasn’t scary so much as it was… weird. Well aware they’re massively destructive at times, I’ve nonetheless always been curious about them. (To be fair, my sibling is a big deal of a geologist as is his partner, and the two of them have dissected nuances of seismic activity in my presence over the years to the point of seeming like clinical data, but what they couldn’t fully describe was exactly how an earthquake feels in the body and brain.) I slept through one once before, and have felt the strange slow singular wave type of earthquake, but never the big shakey-shakey-rumble type like just now.
Curiously, my brain completely tuned out the normally loud traffic on the street outside, and focused on the rumbling (which makes total bio-evolutionary sense to me that a brain would blot out everything its used to hearing and focus on a new sound that might be a threat), so what registered was silence save for the low rumbling and clatter of belongings. Afterwards, I got back to work, but my nervous system was like yeah not ideal and surprised me by responding with a few minutes of vertigo because, well, because bodies are weird. And that, all of that, was completely new and that is what I will write about today. Let’s go.
