Day 5- Revisiting Laws of the Land

  I remember reading about Murphy's laws in the column of a magazine that a dear friend subscribed for me as a gift! This said subscription opened a new window into my small town girl world. There weren't computers readily available, the world wasn't connected through smart phones and social apps. The column used to be on the last page and I, Keeping up the tradition of doing things my own way, used to flip the last page first to get a fix of these fun tidbits. When I look back at my teen self, I do a lot of discoveries about how I was. One thing that alarmingly stands out is how neutral I was to everything I experienced...So did I marvel at the word play of Murphy's laws or did I believe in them? With massive resonance I can say that it was the former.

This exercise of writing a 1000 words a day started off with hopes that I'd keep my bigger writing goals in focus. Talking about them explicitly might not do me any more good than I am already doing by procrastinating the said 'bigger writing goals' so we'll leave it at that :) Now back to the 1000 words (give or take) on hand - so yesterday as I was browsing through the grocery isles and running my errands, a sudden epiphany of sorts struck me. I have to gently bring into focus that whether I commit my thoughts to a paper or a blog or not, I do have a lot of thoughts that cross my mind - yeah, the chronic thinker thingie - but let me not digress to the 'thoughtless' zen state I oh so sincerely want to achieve and stick to the epiphany and write about it. That might not end up very ironically - imagine writing about silence in a unnecessary elaboration! Unsilencing the silence. LOL and what a plot hole that would be?

Back to the point now - "Any thing can go wrong at any time" the Murphy's law marinating in my conscious memory sprung up to the conscious present of my grey matter. What followed was an aha moment and a smile. The knowing smile that blooms over one's face when one knows what to write about and is sure that there's no 'block' blocking the self imposed daily exercise. Notwithstanding, I did dodge the 1000 words last night...what I did though, was this. I opened my blog and started writing and promised myself that I'd revisit it and complete it before the day. Which I didn't do. I have spilled my putting off bug into the third day of February but I did log back in as you would see momentarily ;)

Okay, gingerly back to the point - I thought of this - what if we have to rewrite Murphy's laws? I did start a mental rewrite of one law and that's what started this whole banter.

"Anything can go right at anytime" - I'll do a little punning here "Anything can go write at anytime" (I didn't think of the pun when I thought of the rewrite though! Note to self - It pays to keep up a commitment that doesn't need to be kept!) So back to why this thought occured to me - DId I kind of say I was / am always neutral to life? I did right? and I am right! But just for argument sake, what if I chose to be polarly positive - I think I do look for the best in everything - probably a little too much, which explains the non ambition I exercise in my day to day life! A little stupor becomes a lot of stupor..that kind of thing :)And the best of the worst case scenario is that I justify it and how. Put all the weight on being content, sell the horses and sleep! (That's an adage in my native tongue, to indicate deep slumber. I thought why not translate it to add a few words to my count? Zeez, I Know. Talk about the desperations of life. 

But talking about life or about the laws, I did realize one thing. It is all what we choose to look at no matter what lies in front of us. We don't really need to allow Physics, Chemistry or Murphy to define that for us - but I do suggest not to jump off the cliff just because we defy Physics. Common sense, we shouldn't probably defy - but none the less we can write our own laws and live it up with a gentle tread, on the planet, on the people and more importantly on the self - our own self that is!

Tomorrow if I am short of ideas, I might mince a few words to make the counter move - but who is counting? Or may be I should ask the more pressing question - who is writing? 

Wait...Let me rephrase that - Who is reading?

That put things into perspective. And my writing and its necessity isn't contingent on the last question. It is imperative to keep commitments that are not needed to be kept. It is imperative to stop and scan at a broken signal - somewhat in the same way! And the best part is anything can go right at anytime. Or write! Suit yourself :)

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