Relative...

It's all relative...that seems to be Wil and my current ongoing arguement/discussion. It started with him asking me about a girlfriend of mine who I used to play basketball with and he asked me if she was tall. I said it's relative. This of course lead into a huge discussion of what is relative. That it depends on the relation. That "tall" has a specific nature only by relation to something else. She was not tall for a basketball player, but tall for a girl. She would be tall to Caleb but not to Cousin Tom. You can only imagine the comparisons that were made. So today he tells me that most things in the world are short. I said that's relative. He said "things" are short, I said you mean like buildings and mountains. He said, "no landforms" (too funny), I said what about trees? To which he wanted to know if there were more trees or people in the world? I said that would be a discussion for another day! Which of course lead him to decide to count all the trees in our part of the woods so he could compare it to the number of people in St. Louis. The boy is driven by numbers. But back to the "most things are short in the world" discussion...so why are most things short? I said what about people, they are not things, he said but most people are under six feet tall so that is short. We discussed the average height of people and what average meant. He said so they are mostly short. I said that is relative, he said "not people. JUST THINGS MOM." Like buildings? Ok, mom, you can have buildings cause just think about the millions of things inside of buildings, they are all short. So, like I said all things are short. End of discussion. He is going to be a great lawyer. On the way home I am going to ask him if he had a "good" day.