Today is like spring, not knowing what it wants to do, the weather that is. The grass was cut and afterwards the washing was hung on the line. Well I know it is not easy mowing a lawn with washing in your face.
By the time the lawn was finished so too was the sun so I was not amused but still did the usual line dance in the hope that a puff of wind might blow the clouds away and dry said washing at the same time.
With that done I surveyed the damage and decided that even the edges had been strimmed the grass needed collecting up and began this chore. The sun broke through and I had not put uv protection on anyway so what chance against infra red. That got me thinking. Why are we the only things on the planet who plaster ourselves with lotions or clothes.
I have never seen a bird with a pot of solar defence booster. Nor come to that have I seen an apple applying a protective coating on its unripe skin. Maybe we were not meant to be here at all and the creator or whatever you believe made us must have been dabbling in genetic modification and we were the resultant failure.
If we were still in the primordial swamp then no doubt the water would reflect the uv and infra red rays to an extent for our protection. Just one false step along the pathway and there you are naked, bathed in sun and getting burned and old at the same time. Is that meant or are we just not meant to be at all. I don't know about evolution but I know it must have been a revolution and innovation when the first being invented clothing. Huh, I wonder what sort of a laughing stock he was until it caught on that common sense is a lot more protective than fashionable intelligence.
I can live with that because not being endowed with much of the latter on the quantum scale of intelligence at least I have figured out how to survive with the least amout of effort whilst retaining a modicum of dignity. That I reckon counts for genius rather than inteligence, oh maybe not, who am I trying to kid.
So, why were we here without clothes and glasses perhaps our distant relatives were not as short-sighted as us, well some of us. And maybe there was no visible sunlight on our naked virgin walk on the wildside on an uncharted planet, oh and does it matter? No but it is good to have silly thoughts to keep some sort of energy moving around the genetical genius - ha ha.
