LivinGology

Complicated Simplicity

I had a couple of friends visiting me in the afternoon. They wanted to see my digital piano as they are about to get one for themselves. We started talking about musical instruments it was not until then when I realized 
how complicated my own piano was. "Do you have an idea what is going on under any key when 
you press it?,  the guy asked, "You can't even imagine!"(btw, I'm sure he'll read all this so just to say Hello;)) I'm very 
bad at technical, and especially 
digital termonology but as far as I got it what actually happens is an unbelievably difficult and 
complicated danse between modern technology and brilliant engineering thought.  Likewise, have you thought of all the seemingly 
simple things around us? Say, a stone 
or a tree leaf, do yu know what they are made of? Do you know what you yourself are made of? Probably Bill Bryson was asking himself the same questions before writing "A Short History of Almost 
Everything". And as you can see from the title one can't ever know everything. Even worse, the more you know the more you don't know. For me personally all these questions and the frustration of realizing we can't possibly know everything are necessary, as this  is how we learn new things. Curiosity is one of the two major emotions that have always guided men through survival and progress. It's just that sometimes we forget to apply it to the simple things from our everyday life and thus make ourselves less sensible towards their colourful multiform nature.