Now, I'm not the one to blog about strange hypothetical ideas up until this moment, at this point and time on this day. I recently just watched an episode of Family Guy where Peter, Joe, Brian, and Quagmire were the last four remaining people on earth, not only were they the only people on earth but their memories were completely erased. I also downloaded a new windows theme called "Ghost Town" of a bunch of abandoned towns that really was kind of an interesting theme. And this reminded me of an old Jimmy Neutron episode where Jimmy's dad, is the only person left on earth. They're truly a million examples. That got me wondering, what if that happened to me? and yes, that is what the remainder of this blog post will be about, why you may ask? Because my ideas of things that really matter are dwindling and well, I like getting creative with my writing every once and a while.
Now first of all, I'm going to revise the situation a little from what the actually happened in Family Guy. The idea behind the episode was that they ended up waking up in a hospital, with no recollection of what happened of anything/anyone that happened at all, including each other! For this hypothetical, I'm going to say I'm with three hypothetical friends as well, although one isn't a dog and that we all have recollections of who we are.
First off, I think the most acceptable thing to do would be ask everyone if they're alright, even though we don't know why we're in a hospital. I think the second best thing would be to do, is check our pockets. Pockets always in movies, shows, and books are always one thing ignored until halfway through it which ends up being a really revealing part (example: The Hangover). Now since this is only but a giant hypothetical anyway, I'd assume that the three things that would be in my pockets are the three things I carry around all the times, my cell phone, my iPod Touch, and my wallet. The first thing I'd do, is definitely check my phone, see if any of us had any messages and calls, and check when the last message/call we had received was, as that would probably crucial in figuring out the last time, everything made sense and hopefully triggering memories I'd also make several calls, and really hope that everyone is alright. After I'd check my phone, the next smartest thing to do would be check my iPod (yes, I'd still be able to function these things normally, I only lost the memories of the course of events that happened to the ending of the rest of humanity but not general knowledge). I'd find the closest Wi-Fi zone and hope that it worked. If it did work, I'd definitely see when the last time the news was updated (probably local, NY Times, and well anything else I could find). That would probably lead up to a lot of details. The next thing I'd do, is definitely check Twitter and Facebook as well, those probably have the most information too and see when the last time anything was posted. Then if that didn't resolve anything, the next best thing to do would be check the TV/Radio and see if anything is broadcasting or what was happening, but in this hypothetical all you saw/heard with those two would be fuzz and white noise...
The next smartest thing to do would be to go check the newspaper. Finding one would probably be easy, because well...Nevermind! But anyway, the last and most current newspaper would have to have some clues. If it didn't, then well I guess the last thing to do would be to drive around miles at a time, surviving on stealing necessities for life, and attempting to find some life.
Then this whole hypothetical thing got me thinking. What would any of this be without technology? The radio and the television were huge media outlets of the 1920's and 1960's, and well the cell phone and the iPod are definitely the best media sources of the 2000's, and print media has been around since well we'll say the early 1700's (at least in American history). So let's say technology wasn't an option in this strange hypothetical, how lost would you truly be?
Technology can definitely be a nuisance every once in a while, but it has truly shaped the way we live. Technology is truly for the betterment of life and well that strange hypothetical can show how much of an impact it is. Of course, this would be just what I would do if this were ever to happen to me, because let's face it, that'd probably be the most realistic of options to see what the hell really happened.
Anyway, what can we learn from this? I guess, their is a few lessons today...We need more hypothetical situations in our lives, at least they're kind of fun (also kind of scary to think about) as well as that technology is a huge part of our lives. Now I bet you think this blog post is a whole lot less pointless!
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