Even Google ignores some searches

I'll share a very important life lesson with you, it's simple but very effective, and it's for your own good.

You will be interrogated from time to time, friends, family, colleagues, coworkers, strangers, and most especially online users on social are going throw a lot of questions your way.

I would have said you're not Google, so you don't have all the answers but fun fact, even Google ignores certain search queries that people throw at it.

Have you searched for something so strange and Google had to come up with the "no search results" response?

For the purpose of this article I went ahead and made a search for something stupid and ridiculous just for you to understand that even Google doesn't want to waste its time on something that either doesn't make sense or it has no idea of.

Screenshot from my phone on Google.

Also assuming your search query is content that is not safe to watch or is illegal stuff you're asking, it won't give you the answer.
Infact AI does this even better. Even when you try to trick it with the "creating a story or scenario strategy" where someone makes a nuclear weapon just to see if you can bypass all its guardrails and get an answer, it stops you right there.

So if a computer program knows well enough that not every question or statement deserves a response, why should you break your back to answer and respond to everything.

We tend to waste so much energy trying to answer every single thing people throw at us. There's this feeling of burden to reply, to defend, to explain or mostly to react.

You want to know something very interesting? You really don’t need to respond to everything. The older I got, the more I saw the peace of mind and tranquility that comes out of not feeling the burden to respond or react to every single thing people do.

If you think about the analogy I made with Google, it's quite clear. It is the biggest search engine in the world, with the most data collected from people. It knows a lot. Millions of people use it every single day but even with all that power, all that knowledge, Google still ignores some searches like the example I made.

Because some questions have no answers, and some are useless so Google does not waste time on them, it just tells you no results and drops the damn mic.

So if Google of all things can ignore nonsense, we should also be able to ignore the nonsense in our lives too, and do so with all due respect of course.

Not every insult they send your way needs a clap back from you. Infact, when you get insulted by someone and you act like you didn't even here it, and go about your business like nothing ever happened, it kills them on the inside much more than you throwing back another insult their way.

Especially on social media, it's not every opinion that needs a reply. If you're a content creator, eventually you catch on with this concept. You start to realize that replying some comments just drags you into a rabbit hole.

Speaking of social media and news, it's not every rumor that needs your time to follow. That's why not gossiping is a good thing. You can spend that gossip time on something that will bring more value to your life.

I'm obviously not the first to tell you this but there are times where silence is the strongest answer.

Some people might think that not giving a fuck means being rude, but on the contrary it's actually being nice to one's self. That's totally different from selfishness though.

Nobody's telling you to be cold and nonchalant, what I'm saying is protect your peace as much as you can and if pretending you didn't even hear the question or intentionally not reacting to provocation will bring peace then choose that.

You cannot fight every fight, some fights are even won by choosing not to fight. Especially the fight amongst family and friends. If you fight your family, you might win but consider the fact that you still lost a family member, meaning you lost in the end.

You also cannot please every person. That really is an impossible task. Very good people have haters who want their literal death. You cannot explain yourself forever too. You must choose wisely where your energy goes otherwise you'll be drained before you even get old.

The turning point for me was when I noticed how drained I felt trying to prove myself and explain myself all the time. I'm from a large family so misunderstanding comes often. I could get accused and would always try to prove I'm not guilty by explaining myself. After realizing that sometimes even in my attempt to explain, I compound the problem, I chose this path of just not attempting to explain myself all the time.

I have to tell you, it's really like running a race that never ends.

If Google ignores millions of searches daily and still remains one of the most trusted tools online, maybe I can also ignore millions of little things in my own life and still have virtue.

Quote art made by me with Canva app