Day 4 - Blood

Back from the hiatus and ready to write.

Red blood cells are made in bone marrow, containing a protein called hemogloben. Their job is to carry oxygen, heat, nutrients, waste products, and hormones around the body. Normal human red blood cells have an average lifespan about 120 days. There are about 8-12 pints in the average adult human body. Babies have approximately one cup.

So easy to lose track of a couple of drops. That is actually quite reminiscent of society.

Think. A papercut, spilling a couple drops before being wrapped up (let's ignore the fact that if left untreated, you can lose about 25% of the blood in your body from a paper cut in eight hours due to the fact that they don't clot easily, leaving the nerves exposed as well as causing them to reopen much more easily.) How many people actually care about those few drops? Almost nobody, that's right.

Now, let's transition that example into society. An old man died of lung cancer. He had a family, quite a few friends, and coworkers/acquaintances. Most of his old schoolmates are likely to never find out he died. Sure, his family, friends, and close acquaintances will mourn, but in the bigger equation, the world wil be apathetic.

People say "You are never nobody," but I, today, would like to challenge that view.

Unless you are already famous, your death will never be recognised individually in a significat way to the world. Even if you died in a great incident everyone heard about, nobody really knows the individuals, unless they were close to them.

The point is, you are nothing to the world. In life, and in death. You may say, "but this doesn't mean you are nobody, per se. You may be nobody to the greater world, but you could be the world to somebody."

However, zooming out further, is that relationship really significant at all? It's just two strands of spiderweb attached together in a massive web. Nothing but two bits of silky substance, fragile as a single drop of water which is a part of a greater body of liquids.

It's funny how many people strive to be greater, believing it will set them apart from a level of society, believing it will make them different, special, better, divergent from the system. How miserably wrong they are. In the end, we're all nothing but slaves to the system. Becoming a leader? You are still a slave of society. Not even that, you're helping even more people to become so... at least that would be if there was an alternative.

Something we humans have to accept is that there is no alternative. That we are all simply a collective group, nothing more. We are not individuals to the greater world.

Just like blood cells. All a part of a droplet of blood. Then that droplet is a part of a greater batch of it. Even then, the blood is a part of the circulatory system, which is a part of a body, which is a part of a human, who is a part of society.

Depressing, really, admitting that we are actually nobody. But then again, when is life not?