perspective hurts

A lot of the time, my mind wanders along thinking about things without my paying any particular attention to it--you know, background noise while I get on with the boring mundanities of life; every once in a while this results in my getting hit with something about like a dead fish upside the face. As for example, this morning in the shower, we were bopping along, everybody minding their own business, and suddenly I listened to what my brain was doing and thought, OH MY GOD THERE'S ONLY TWO W...