Inflatable.

If you haven't heard of Adam Hills - good sir, you need to be educated. One of the best comedians in Australia, by far.

I've just watched - for the second time, because it was so good - his show from 2010, called Inflatable. It's called as such because it centres around this little joke:

There once was an inflatable boy and an inflatable girl. They went to an inflatable school, where all the teachers were inflatable, all the buildings were inflatable, and all the students were inflatable. One day, the inflatable boy made the mistake of bringing a pin to school. The principal took him into his office and said, "Son, you've let yourself down, you've let your classmates down, and you've let the whole school down."

But it went further than that. He turned it into something that had a real application for people; something that people could really get out of it.

There once was an inflatable boy and an inflatable girl. They went to an inflatable school, where all the teachers were inflatable, all the buildings were inflatable, and all the students were inflatable. One day, the inflatable boy wondered - well, what if the whole world's inflatable? And what if everyone's inflatable and deflatable? And you know when you inflate someone, because they go like this *happy face, rises up a bit* and you know when you deflate someone, because they go like this *sad face, droops down* And maybe, if you inflate lots of people - maybe then you know you've lived a good life. And maybe....maybe, if you can still inflate people after you're gone, then you've lived an even better one.

That's condensing it down a little, but that's the full idea there.
And I suppose - in some ways, that's really what I try to do. With my music/comedy, the way I live and act towards other people - I try to be an Inflater. And sometimes - sometimes, that's felt amazing. Particularly when you inflate someone when they've been deflated, that's...that's pretty special.
And I think that, even if you can't be certain about other things in life - even if you can't understand the head or tail of various philosophical, or scientific, or theological, or cosmological, or some other sort of arguments or theories - you can still be an Inflater. Leave the debating to the debaters. Live with people, and be Inflaters.

That's my nickel for today. ;)