Grandpa 's Journey

Morning Nonsense at the Community Centre Every morning before ping pong, we line up at the community centre. We don’t stretch. We don’t meditate. We don’t discuss world peace. We talk nonsense. Politics? Avoid. Religion? Dangerous. Family issues? Too sensitive. Sex? At our age, better not open that door. So instead, we debate important scientific questions like: “Is there really gravity?” One friend insists gravity is fake — invented by the media to keep us obedient. Another says, “No, no, it exists. They just renamed it.” No one brings evidence. No one checks Google. No one wins. We laugh. That’s the point. We all learned about Isaac Newton and his apple. Some of us even remember hearing about Albert Einstein and space-time. But in our line-up, gravity is not physics. It’s entertainment. It’s brain exercise without tension. It’s proof that we are still thinking — even if not seriously. At our age, something changes. We no longer argue to win. We talk to c...