For as long as I can remember, I have always wondered things.

When I was a little girl, I wondered if other people thought and saw the world as I did. A child doesn’t understand that you can’t see someone thinking. I would watch people carry on with life and wonder if there was anyone in their head like I was in mine. If they were just going through life like a robot, on instincts and actions with no mental dialog going on. And I wondered if I was strange because I was talking in my head all the time.

Now as an adult, I realize (I think) that everyone is the same sort of way. But now I wonder if they see things the way I do. If the view out my window looks the same to my husband as it does to me. If our upbringing and experiences dictate the way we see things.

And I still wonder if animals have thought. I look at the squirrel out in my yard and wonder if he thinks and makes decisions. Or if he is just running on instincts with no emotion or thought process. Hmmm. Some things to ponder.

I realize this is pretty deep for a Saturday morning, so lets tread up to shallower water.

We went on a road trip last week. I love road trips! Like really love them! I love seeing the country! But as we were driving through somewhere in Illinois, I started thinking about it. So many people can’t stand long drives. They can barely get through 4 hours, let alone multiple days of driving! I wonder why? When I was a kid our family used to go on drives and I would just stare out the window and wonder at our world! I would lay down in the back seat and watch the stars through the window and wonder about space (I wanted to be an astronaut when I grew up!). Now there are DVD players just to make it across town! Do children not know how to use their imaginations anymore? Can they not entertain themselves they way we used to have to? Does taking long car drives as a child lead to enjoying them more as an adult? Or does one’s personality make that determination? I think both of my sisters like road trips too, so maybe it’s the first.

Back to somewhere in Illinois and I found myself looking out the window at a gorgeous day and my mind begins to wander….or wonder really. I was looking at the lovely blue sky and wondering what the sky might look like on other planets. Blue is an odd color for a sky, is it not? It’s just air. I mean, if I had no knowledge whatsoever of Earth, I might assume that the black dark sky (absence of light) would turn to white or a shade of cream/yellow in the day (with light). Blue does not seem like a logical color. And I was thinking, if people exist on other planets would they find it unbelievable when we told them that our sky was blue? Could they even imagine what that might look like? Our clear air, seen from a distance and in bulk, appears to be blue. Same as our water.

I don’t think they would believe us!

I saw the trailer for the new Peanuts Movie online a few days ago. It totally took me back to my childhood! I grew up watching, and reading, Peanuts. There was nothing more exciting than reading the Sunday Funnies! But then I got to thinking…do kids even know that Charlie Brown was/is a comicstrip? Maybe they only know him from his Holiday Specials on television. It makes me sad to think that children nowadays don’t understand the joy of reading the Funnies like we did as kids. Or that they might not even know what the Funnies are! Or a newspaper for that matter!

Also, did everyone call it the Funnies growing up?

Anyway, this is just a glimpse inside my wandering brain. Proof to you (and children) that yes, we all have an inner dialog and are thinking things that are not said out loud. My brain jumps from topic to topic all day long. I swear it never stops! One day I should really count how many different topics I think about! I’m sure it would be very surprising.

Oh, and to my husband…this is what I do on the computer! Look up answers to all my wondering! I’m not just stalking Facebook! (though that does occupy a small fraction of my time 😉 )