Random Thoughts by Tara Gopalan

Human brains are meant to think, and we can often use them to be productive. However, sometimes your brain just decides to think of random, kinda silly stuff. When that happens, you can go on a walk, talk to someone about it, or write a purposeless article for your middle school newspaper. I chose the latter, so here’s a bunch of random thoughts you may or may not have thought about before! 

Bananas are so weird.  Apples are hard, oranges have pulp, watermelon is spongy, but bananas have the same consistency as literal ICE CREAM. To make them even more weird, they are in a perpetual identity crisis. Bananas are technically a fruit, but they are classified as a berry! Despite how interesting they are, bananas are a good substitute for ice cream and they make you feel healthy while eating other junk food, so I can overlook their differences. 

Rolly pollies are basically tiny dogs. Just think about it: They’re small, they walk funny, and they curl into a “C” shape on the ground when you pet them (which I know for reasons I won’t say). Doesn’t your dog do that too? You pet their stomach and they collapse onto the ground in a “C” shape. When they are puppies they walk funny and run into things. They’re small (excluding Great Danes and a bunch of other breeds). I know it sounds weird, but I’m just saying: If your parents won’t let you have a dog, just adopt a rolly polly.

Time is a figment of human imagination. When the first few humans evolved and came out of caves they weren’t like, “Oh, my, It’s 6:00! Time for my business meeting!” We came up with time to help us organize our lives. We set our own deadlines. Keeping that in mind, we can technically say that time doesn’t exist. So…. don’t do your homework, kids! (Just kidding, you need to do it.) But my point still stands! 

That’s all for now! Don’t tell me you haven’t gotten these thoughts at 3 am before. You haven’t? Oh, well, I guess it’s just me. The lesson of this extremely educational article is that you should embrace your weird thoughts because they can be used to write articles for your school newspaper. 

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