The first time someone asked me, 'If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?' I laughed—until I couldn’t sleep that night. It seems like a silly riddle at first, but it worms its way into your brain. What even is 'sound' if not perception? It’s wild how a joke question can unravel something as fundamental as how we define reality.
Then there’s the classic, 'Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?' Language is such a messy, human thing, and that question highlights how arbitrary so much of it is. It’s like life’s operating on duct-taped rules, and we’re all just nodding along. Makes you wonder what else we’ve accepted without questioning—like why we say 'tuna fish' but not 'beef mammal.'