Ever wondered what goes on in the back of someone's head when they call themselves "Random". "Hey luk at moi, m random, im 2 random fr words", or, “I’m so random, I cud do nethng rt now.”
Huh? What does that mean? Does that mean you're whimsical? Does that mean you can't think coherently for more than a minute? Does your head hurt when you do that?
Wikipedia casually defines randomness as 'a lack of order, purpose or cause'. Ok, that helped. It’s probably being 'randomly cool' about it. (Was that an oxymoron?)
Why is it that people think their Facebook photo albums will get more thumbs-ups, if it is titled "Random" or "Random pics"? Even when all of those photos are in a bar, restaurant or even a classroom, when it is pretty clear, there’s nothing random about them. It’s on the T-shirts too, you know. I guess it has now joined the league of the Me-Too T-shirts which proudly display ‘what education did to them’ or how ‘contagious their attitude is’. Robert Brown (of the Brownian Motion fame) would be so proud.
So what’s the mystery behind this word? Why is it that people think they could garner a higher acceptance among their peers, if they could call themselves or their actions as ‘Random’? If everyone is so random, we wouldn’t be random anymore. (OK, now my head hurts). Call someone random and you see a wonderful 32-bit smile on his/her face. (OK, that didn’t go as I had planned.)
Please refrain from calling me or this post as random. You shall be missing random teeth the next morning.
By the way, the picture on the right was displayed on the first results page of Google Image search when I searched for the word ......
