There's sand in my driving shoes

摘要

Have you ever thought about everything? When I say everything, I mean all of it-dirt, trees, animals, people, planets, stars, galaxies-the entire thing all at once. I try sometimes, until I blow a cerebral gasket or fall asleep. I'm not sure why I do this. Maybe I'm trying to see what I've been missing all these years of not using drugs. It's a sort of meditation for me. I start with tiny objects, grains of sand on the beach or something similar. I think about the billions of those that make up one beach. Then I go to everything on the beach, then everything surrounding the beach and keep expanding from there. Thinking about the universe's incredible vastness is a sort of zen state with a sci-fi-geek spin. Expansive thought also happens to be a great way of looking at things from the bottom up. Seeing things from the simple to the complex, or the infinitesimally small to the humungously large.Too often we look at a problem from too great a view and see something so complex that it looks impossible to resolve.