Tuesday, 15 February 2011

The Strange Things We Do In life

I saw what is possibly one of the oddest things I've seen in a long time today, many would think nothing off it and get on with their day, but even hours after I've seen it I'm still thinking about it and blogging about it, speaking of which (or maybe in this case typing) is blogging about something I find odd and oddity in itself?

I personally love looking for odd things in my surroundings, stuff one has to really look for but sometimes the oddities of our surroundings just jump out at you and take you by surprise.
I suppose the concept of something being odd varies to the individual; as the thing you consider odd, another may see as a normality, part of their everyday life. But yet it still breaks the rules which make thing in question socially, culturally or psychologically odd, breaking away from what is considered normal to which the response to it is for it to be odd or abnormal. For instance the way a person may do a particular activity.

Oddness is a concept much like most things, with out going into a whole world of meta physics, basically most things in life can be argued top not have a real existence as it is something, someone one day made up and was excepted as the social norm. When it comes to oddities each person has a different approach to it, sure there may be similarities between peoples ideas but somewhere along the line they will become different again, which in turn gives us our own oddities for if we didn't have them and everyone was the same psychologically in every single way life would be boring and everyone would be bland.

I asked earlier if blogging about such a thing is odd itself, and its a very "chicken or egg" question, there is no definitive answer, one may find the whole concept and idea of blogging odd where as others such as myself and quite likely anyone who reads this to be quite a normal aspect of the whole activity of blogging.

I tried to take a picture of the odd thing I saw today however it seemed the due was suffering form paranoia (rightfully so but still relax dude) as every time I turned my camera on my phone to take a photo he kept looking at me, to which I just pretended to be turning on my chair and texting or some crap like that, so I failed on that front, but it was a Keyboard a standard QWERTY (I know feel ashamed of myself as i just had a brief moment of ponder to how one spells "QWERTY") however it was in half's and he he either half at 90 degrees (keys facing outwards) and was typing.
To me this was very odd as I'd never seen it before but yet amazed at the same time, at the fact one could type like that, I can touch type but not the the accuracy he was doing it, what makes it even more amazing that he wasn't watching his screen either, is word window was really small as well so he could only see the line he was typing if he were to check it, he was reading a text book!

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