99 Things That Confuse Me

Why is life so confusing? photo by Evelyn Jackson

I find myself constantly confused, so I thought I should write it down in case anyone reading this can shed some light.

1. How do boats know where to go? If you’re in the middle of the ocean with no service how do you figure that out?
2. How do painkillers know where your pain is? Is it able to know the exact place it is? I honestly have no clue.
3. How do calculators know everything? I know it’s probably a program, but I don’t understand how that program works.
4. How does bluetooth work? 
5. Disco balls. They’re just so shiny and beautiful.
6. Why are there different words that mean the same thing? Like there, their and they’re. I mean THEY’RE all the same, I don’t understand.
7. How does my phone not crack the first 100 times I drop it, but on the 101st time it does? A couple days ago my phone cracked for the first time after having it for three years and dropping it countless number of times, how does that work?
8. Why do people hate on my music taste? If you don’t like it, don’t like it. Theres no reason to be rude about it.
9. Why does Spotify play the same eight songs in my six hour long playlist? Its constant repetition, I just don’t understand it.
10. Complex origami. How does a person just know how to fold a paper to make something so complex?
11. Why do people hate Instagram reels but love TikTok? What’s the difference?
12. What are smart cars? In what way are they smarter than other cars? 
13. Dry ice. It’s just so weird and makes no sense to me.
14. How do people not know their home address? Especially if you’ve lived there your whole life.
15. How did NASA lose all of its information on how to send people to space? Like how do you lose information that is in a database? How is that even possible?
16. Why would people choose a felon over a woman? Not to get political. But to get political.
17. How does a person just learn a bunch of languages? How big of a brain do you have? Their memorization must be so good.
18. Art. There’s just so much of it and so many different types, how do people even come up with some of the ideas?
19. How does language evolve? What does a person do to change language?
20. Old English vs. New English. Old English is just so confusing compared to New English.
21. How do light bulbs work? How does a switch make electricity? 
22. When I wave at somebody in the hallway, why do they just stare at me like I’m crazy? I’m just trying to be friendly, no need to be rude.
23. The Star Wars saga. There’s just so much of it with so many relationships that make no sense.
24. Bagels, why are they so delicious?
25. Why would somebody choose a modern house over a cute cottage? Cottages are so cute and aesthetic but modern homes are so sharp and rigid.
26. Wi-Fi. I don’t understand how something like that gives me the internet.
27. Eyebrows. They freak me out.
28. Why do people still listen to and support Kanye West? Even though people know hes a bad person they continue to listen to his music.
29. Should I pursue a career for money or happiness? It’s a decision that is hard to figure out.
30. Kansas. I’m just so confused about what goes on there.
31. Erewhon. That store is like a completely different dimension.
32. Red cars. They freak me out.
33. The ending of La La Land. It had so much potential, but just failed completely.
34. Why are some pencils so satisfying while others just make me mad? Sometimes they just make me cringe if I write wrong.
35. Why are eggs like that? Why are they so circular and gooey?
36. Fahrenheit. Why not just use Celsius? It makes so much more sense.
37. Why is room temperature water better for you than cold water? Cold water is better, room temperature is gross.
38. How does a person non-stop run for 26.2 miles? That makes zero sense to me.
39. How do you run 26.2 miles in only 2 hours? That makes even less sense to me.
40. The TikTok algorithm. I always get the most strange videos that make no sense.
41. Why is soup so delicious? Who invented it? It’s so good!
42. How do glasses work? I honestly have no idea, they’re just so silly.
43. Why does a hairstyle look so good on one person but so awful on another? My hair always looks so ugly if I try a hairstyle I see on pinterest.
44. People who have a license and don’t know how to drive. I thought you got your license? USE IT!
45. Why was I rear-ended?????
46. How do crystals work? Do they even actually work? Or is it a placebo?
47. Daylight savings. Why not just get rid of it?
48. Why are people with blue eyes more sensitive to the sun? Like fix it, be less sensitive.
49. Sticky Notes. They freak me out.
50. Air conditioning at TJ. Sometimes we have it, sometimes we don’t, WHERE DID IT GO?
51. What is a rhetorical analysis? I honestly have no clue anymore.
52. How does wind work? Where does it come from? Does somebody just own a really big fan?
53. Why is the sky blue? Is it actually blue or is everyone color blind?
54. Allergies. I just don’t understand them.
55. Why do my fingers get pruney in the shower?
56. Turkeys. They look so strange.
57. Math. Who invented it? Why is it so confusing?
58. Golf carts. What are they?
59. Why are there nine innings in Baseball? Why not 10?
60. Genetics. How do they get passed down? 
61. Why does trauma damage DNA? Is that true or does everybody just choose to think that?
62. Slime. It’s icky but I also love it.
63. Oobleck. It’s just icky.
64. Software. What is it?
65. Jelly beans. Literally, what are jelly beans?
66. How do leaves change colors? Do they have color in them or is it an outer thing?
67. Why do people call roly polys pill bugs? THEIR ROLY POLYS!
68. What is “buzzcut season”? I don’t understand why somebody wants to shave their head.
69. Why do some trends last longer than others? Are they better or do people just think of them longer?
70. Vegans. Why would you choose to not eat meat or cheese?
71. Why do onions make you cry? It’s not that sad.
72. Traffic. How does it start? When does it end?
73. Chemistry. Who figured it out?
74. How do people lack common sense? Be smarter.
75. Why do people think South is better than TJ? In no world it is.
76. Unnecessary acronyms. I don’t know that they mean, why do you expect the rest of the world to?
77. Why is griddying so addicting? It’s just so much fun.
78. Why is glitter so beautiful? One of the best microplastics i’ve ever seen.
79. Why would Mike Tyson fight Jake Paul? He’s almost 60, there’s no need.
80. How does cheese work? Why is moldy cheese good but also bad?
81. Straws. How many holes do they have?
82. Sabrina Carpenter. I don’t think she’s worth the hype.
83. How are diamonds the hardest rock on earth? They’re clear, how are they super strong?
84. The British school system. What are GCSEs?
85. Who decided how long months are?
86. Jellyfish. What do you mean there are deadly blobs chilling in the ocean?
87. How have we only discovered 5% of the ocean? How big is the earth if that’s only how much we’ve discovered?
88. The universe. Is it really constantly expanding?
89. How is water not alive? It’s always moving, it should be alive.
90. How do fish work? Can I squish them? If I can, they make even less sense.
91. Cartographers. How do they know what to graph?
92. How do people just create music? How do they have the ideas to make a song?
93. Why is Dance Moms such a good show? Its so addicting and I don’t know why.
94. Car insurance. Is it really THAT necessary?
95. How do people not know how a 4-way stop works? I thought that the first thing you learn when getting your license.
96. Artificial Intelligence. It freaks me out.
97. Dreams. How do they work?
98. Stocks. How do they work?
99. NFTs. HOW DO THEY WORK????