Clueless Seaweed

Seminal:  Highly influential, especially in some original way.

I find my mind, mesmerized, drifting back to relive the feelings I experienced when I saw the hills above my home engulfed with flames on Day One.  It is seminal.  It is one of the five most amazing things I have ever experienced and I've taken too much LSD.  I can't get over what it was like to incorrectly process visual information.  It literally made no sense.  I knew it was a fire beyond massive but I couldn't understand what that meant.  I didn't know what to think.  In 60 years of living I had no frame of reference for what I was seeing.

I saw a pickup truck lose control on the freeway in front of me once.  It swerved, in an increasingly large parabola, back and forth, before flipping over and rolling many times, eventually leaving the road and bouncing down an embankment before coming to rest against a fence.  I had my window open and I'll never forget the Crunch! Crunch! Crunch! that big piece of metal made as it was hitting concrete.  It, too, was oddly beautiful.  I couldn't process the sight of that big thing moving through space like that.  I got down to the kid who was driving before anyone else and I was much more in control of my actions and my thinking than I was on Day One.  I took my time getting through the tall grass on the verge.  I stopped about fifteen feet from the truck - I could see someone sitting behind the wheel.

"Hey, are you alright?" I yelled.  I had the self-awareness to stay fifteen feet away.  If this guy was all messed up I didn't want to see it and I couldn't do anything to make it better, anyway.  He said that he thought he was.  I told him to turn off the engine, which was, amazingly enough, still running.  I had the self-awareness to do that.  I then told him to get out of the car.  I had the self-awareness to realize that there might be gasoline or oil leaking out, coming into contact with hot metal.  If I was too worried about the sight of blood to approach the wreck I don't think I would have wanted to try to pull some injured person out of a burning car.

What did I do when I saw the hills above my home alive with fire?  Went to bed.

Clueless:  Lacking knowledge or understanding; uninformed.

That was something.  9/11 was also one of those events.  The first time I had an orgasm was pretty major - something that deserves its own category.  That's four things.  I'm not sure that I didn't just experience one of the four most major things I've ever experienced.

We'll probably have an earthquake tomorrow.