I felt like getting a burger at a fast food joint cause I didn't feel like cooking. And since I was walking everywhere, I felt like eating at the shop. I sat down at me random table, unwrapping and eating the burger, taking my time cause I'm not going anywhere.
(This is an integral plot point by the way lol)
I forgot my phone, so I felt like just staring out the window since not much else is going on. And in my field of vision past the marketing, the machinery, all the importance of society all around me. Past all that, were trees. I live in a woodsy area, so they're pretty normal. Actually, I don't think about them much myself usually. But today made me feel like staring at trees for a while.
And it hit me that while a lot of these trees in the city area are fairly normal, it must take a lot of time planting these things, trimming them, removing, replacing. They're carefully maintained (at least the places that do.)
That's a lot of work for plants, you're not gunna see a lot of other plants federally funded to stay up there.
And there's a good reason, they're important. But looking at it from just my point of view just eating a burger, it looks like a forest to me. Then I thought man, you just look at one, and whether you think it or not, that thing is huge! And they outnumber us hundreds to one (I looked it up lol.)
Anyway, as I was finishing up my food, I couldn't help but think man, it's crazy to think we're so small population wise compared to trees. Bugs too O.o
There's no real intention with this thought, no moral guidance, I just thought it's a crazy thing to imagine xD my mind wanders pretty far when I'm bored by myself.
Vinity
I think about that too, and more than trees, nature in general. Behind me there are literally trees that quadruple the size of my house and some palm trees too (I live in a coastal area). And also (irrelevant story but it has to do with trees) 13 years ago my mother planted a pumalaca tree (or foreign apple, pumarrosa, it has many names but here we call them pumalaca). At that time it was just a piece of wood, and I witnessed its growth. Before it didn't even reach my shoulders, now it's three times the size of my house. I love nature, and I love living in an area with so much forest. Interesting random thoughts by the way :), and my answer is not the exception, it doesn't make sense either but it is what it is :P
Barvem
Thanks lol I dig that story too by the way. Very true as well ^^