Thinking About Stuff (And Breathing)!

Carolyn Cordon
6 min readSep 11, 2023

I just read an article here on Medium, this one in fact: https://medium.com/the-haven/you-took-my-breath-away-and-now-im-dead-dc5c320a8d04
and it made me think, about things. I smiled inwardly as I read the article as well, but thinking was my main thing, as I read it.

What I was thinking, or wondering, (are wondering and thinking the same thing? I suspect the truth is that wondering is a form of thinking) anyway, I was wondering did the writer of this article realise they could save some of their breaths by breathing more slowly.

And that breathing slowly instead of gasping down the air rapidly, like they were afraid it was going to run out. well that’s actuallu good for you, and you’ll live lomger. Or you might, but if you’re the kind of person who breathes slowly, and blisses out when crossing the road, that slow breathing might actually bring on an early death.

So while breathing slowly is good for you, being careful when on the road is important too, if you want to stay alive, obviously. Thinking about that, reminded me about an idiot I saw driving on the road today, and really, sometimes I wonder if some people should even be allowed to drive they’re so stupid!

This person passed us (as we were driving along), when there wasn’t enough room ahead to see if anything was coming, because of the curve of the road. They ended up driving over the solid white line along th middle of the road. In Austalia, that is definitely not a thing you’re…

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Carolyn Cordon

Writer & Presenter — Poetry, prose, blogging, editor Mallala Crossroad Chronicle. Words are my tools, I use them well!