eli5 Electricity

Question

So electricity always tries to find the fastest way to ground right? So say you get shocked and it goes through you. Where does electricity go when it goes into the ground. Thank you

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Answer 1

Electricity flows in a loop, almost always. For any reasonably large loops, the ground is intentionally or unintentionally connected somewhere.

Thus, when you connect it to the ground elsewhere too, you form another link to the loop.