What does it mean to make sense of something?

Scientifically, does our five senses become numb to something over time? I have no idea, it might be useful to find out.

Often, I found that one wouldn’t be able to recall or sense a particular smell when they have been there for quite some time.

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defined the word sense as

a faculty by which the body perceives an external stimulus, one of the faculties of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch.

I find that the things that fall under the category of ‘sense’ are pretty subjective or may become something subjective after some time. Perhaps, is this why the word ‘feeling’ is synonymous with the word ‘sense’? Well, so much for attempting to be philosophical. But that will be a topic for another story

Let me try to make sense of something here by loosely interpreting an illustration I read from one of my favorite books You Are What You Love by James K.A Smith

A human at one point may question a fish by saying “what is it like living underwater?”, to which the fish might answer, “what water?”

Unlike the human, water was never something the fish found extraordinary having been immersed there for long.

Let me take you to how I find the fish illustration relevant for the time being

As human beings living on the same planet, facing the same pandemic by nestling under our roofs, we too may find ourselves moving from rejection, depression, boredom- you name it, to finally acceptance

to finally finding ourselves swimming in ‘the water’

At least, it has been like that for me as I enter my first one month in le infamous #stayathome, or being #happyinISO (I meant this)

“what does it means to make sense of something?”

I asked at the beginning.

Guess the answer is, something starts making sense to me as soon as I breed familiarity with whatever it is.

As for now, anything is everything but familiar.

Yes, most things do not make sense at all at this point and I am okay with that.

If I were to trace things from as long as I can remember, I find that a lot of things in my life has not made any sense at all to this very day. I may not know the answer and will never know the answers to. Which shows how I, as a human being can only do so much to have things under control.

Welcome to the new normal, they say. Soon enough, we might find ourselves swimming in our ‘water’, trying our hardest to make sense of things, ended up saying something like

“Quarantine? What quarantine? It’s just life per usual.” 

Whatever forms of “water” we find ourselves swimming in these past few weeks, for someone it might be cooking with the family,

for another it’s learning a new language or exercising every day,

I know for me is getting the chance to eat with my family from breakfast to dinner,

Whatever it may be for you, I do hope that we will not lose our wonder even in the seemingly mundane things. Most importantly, let us not grown numb from being thankful, even when things make a lot more sense later on down the road.