everything is a social construct.
I have this friend that likes giving everyone small existential crises, one that would kind of ruin your day because it makes you perceive things wrong once you know about it. And, what he says are fascinating, but I don't think they are true. Scratch that, they are not true. Why? Because everything is a social construct. Everything we say, do and think, are not true and we merely made up these concepts. You might say "How can you prove your theory?" And to that, I respond "well, how can you disprove it?" Not even the greatest scientist can prove that we exist, that scientist cannot prove that he/she is following the correct concepts of life if he/she can't even prove it to be real. It is a haunting piece of info, it certainly does scared me a bit, but most of the time, it makes me worry about things less. I told my close friend about how I like believing this theory, and she told me that I actually believe in one of her greatest fears. She perceives it i...