It was the same with Loki's older brother Finn when he was a late toddler in the early noughties. Always questioning stuff and wanting to know things. Most of which I didn't know the answer to. 'When were the dinosaurs Daddy?' To which my answer would be 'blowed if I know, wish someone would invent Wikipedia'.
You end up learning so much stuff - like how the Earth was formed, how life on Earth evolved, and how totally insignificant we are as a species, particularly if measured by time on the planet compared to the dinosaurs, that it can be quite a profound experience just responding to 'can we turn on the tv again Daddy?'
At least, that's the argument I'm using with Iu. 'Are you watching the tv again with Loki?' asks Iulia, to which I reply 'It's a profound experience my darling'.
Apparently YouTube videos of multi-coloured balls spraying out of the side of a train with a human face doesn't cut it as profound to Iu.
Anyway, little moments can happen during the day with your toddler, (like dodging snails on the path after it rains) which if you stop to think about it for even a second, they drag you into the freaky weirdness and pure chance of life on Earth and the ever present feeling underneath it all that our every act is meaningless and our existence is futile. Being with young kids can do that to you.
Why snails decided to come out in the rain even though they get immediately trodden on is a mystery of evolution. You think they've been around so long they'd have a titanium shell, but no - nothing doing.
You could of course take a different direction and fall into the comfort of the Biblical version of what happened, as many do, dismissing the fossil record as an elaborate divine gag to test you.
In this version, the Book of Genesis explains that God created everything in 6 days and then had a good lie down. All was going swimmingly well until woman turned up and, persuaded by a snake with legs, encouraged the only other bloke on Earth to eat some fruit that suddenly gave them brains.
Brains being bad, they were cast out from the Garden of Eden and the snake was punished by having his legs taken away from him.
As plausible as this sounds, you do feel that one or two things may have been left out. The snail is a case in point. It has no legs. It has to carry its house on its back. And, get this, it has its anus on its head.
Even if you believe all the stuff about the fruit and the snake - that still doesn't explain what the snail did. Because it must have been way, way worse. It has an anus on its head!
Now that's a bit of the Bible I'd like to have read.
If you're an evolutionary type of person, well then you believe we all came from the sea and our great grandma x 10million was a lobster.
And it's probably true. Except maybe for Donald Trump who's ancestors arrived on the same garbage space rock of evil that the Murdochs did, and rather than coming from the sea should just be thrown into it.
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