About: Profundity: the quality or state of being profound; depth.
I believe that profundity can often be found in the most mundane of places; or it can be faked arbitrarily by removing the mundanity. I hereby present the Profundity Project, where I will take sentences from decidedly un-profound sources and present them as deep and life-changing aphorisms.
“Well then, you’re hanging around with the wrong everyone!”
—my mom, to my brother, after he insisted that “everyone” he knows [does something moronic]
“Teats. Minus one.”
—Abby’s graded bio test has a lot to say about the social status of women.
“You haven’t seen Washington until you’ve seen it at night!”
—An ad on the back of a city map of DC notes that a study of American politics is incomplete without an examination of its darker, more corrupt moments.
From foundmagazine.com
“Remember to change your name.”
—Mac printing tips in the library
“Did you consider light?”
—Signs along the Baltimore freeways advertising the light rail.
“Study the human condition across time and space.”
—Goucher academic catalogue’s Gen Ed requirements.
“Go sit in a hole. Life is delicious.”
—Lisa was actually talking about the cereal Life.
“Caution: bridges freeze before roadway.”
—The signs along the Baltimore freeways carry a warning about how to approach interpersonal relationships along the highway of life.
“Hold eye open and rinse gently and slowly.”
—My roommate’s Lysol bottle knows it’s tough trying to see things with new eyes, but if you take it gentle and slow, opening up to broader perspectives doesn’t have to hurt.
