So, I'm sure once you read this you'll probably wonder a bit about me, and think I very possibly need to find a better way to spend my time. And that I should, at all costs, try to avoid this whole thinking thing.
Well, today I sat down for a minute, and somehow my thoughts went off in to strange places, and I have absolutely no idea how they got there. My first few thoughts went something like this: Why are bed rooms called bedrooms? Why are bathrooms called bathrooms? Why are living rooms called living rooms? and as long as we're following this whole thing, why are kitchens not called fridgerooms?
Why did they choose for a bathroom to be called a bathroom? Why did they not call it the toiletroom? I'm pretty sure every bathroom I've ever seen has a toilet in it, but not every bathroom has a bath. It makes little sense to me.
(also, they have the other name. Restroom. Has anyone ever gone in there to rest? That would definitely not be the first place I would choose to go if I needed a nap, or just wanted to rest for a while.)
Now, not much is to be said of the bedroom. I don't even know why I mentioned it. The name makes sense to me, because, almost every bedroom does have a bed in it, as to where it doesn't always have any other certain object in it.
But! The living room. Now that, I don't understand. For as long as I've been alive, I have lived in EVERY room of a house. Not just the living room. Is the living room more alive than the kitchen? or a closet? I don't think so. I just don't think I'll ever understand this stuff.
Now, we get to the kitchen. You have to wonder, why was it not named like almost all the other rooms of the house? Why is it not called a fridgeroom, or an ovenroom, or microwaveroom? is the kitchen better than the other rooms? So, it has a name far superior to the others? Or, maybe it's the other way around. Perhaps it is inferior to the rest of the rooms in the house, and it was not worthy of having such a name as "stoveroom". I'm thinking it's probably the first option- being superior to the others. The kitchen is where all the food and drink is, which, obviously we would be dead without. I think it is more worthy of the name "livingroom", than the livingroom is, because, without the kitchen and all the wonderful food and drink and happiness which it holds, we would not be living. We could surely live without the things that most livingrooms have, such as TVs, or couches, or nice arearugs. So why is it called livingroom, and not the kitchen?
I do believe that something was wrong with the people who came up with these names. Perhaps they were all drunk, or they've never been taught anything before. I can't say. But, I think it's all silly.
Friday, September 4, 2009
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