Slices Of Life, Murphy's Law, Fate and Hope

I never had a slice of bread,

Particularly large and wide,

That did not fall upon the floor,

And always on the buttered side.

If Nature were intuitive it would be a gloomy overcast day. Ironically after pouring cats and dogs in close succession, today dawned bright, clear and sunny. The only gloomy thing in the radius of 5 kms is yours truly.Urgh! Even the weather is making a mockery of my misery....yet in Bollywood big-banner big-budget multi-starrers the weather always reflects the mood of the hero/heroine as the case maybe....which goes to show that real life is a world apart from the reel life. (So what else is new?!)

Was having a perfectly happy week.....in fact so happy a week that deep down I was afraid to say that alound in case i jinxed it. Well something did go wrong. Blew up in my face, blasting me to kingdom come. I'll spare you the nitty gritties....its boring anyway. The bottom line is Murphy's Law is terrifyingly accurate: "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong."

Which made me brood on a whole range of experiences from chilhood to adulthood. And I've come up with my own version of a Law Of Life : "Slices of Life : The Tasty Bits are wafer thin...The Bitter Ones come as generous helpings".

Just when you begin to lower your defences and get lulled into a false sense of security..then BAM! you get hit on the head with a club (metaphorically speaking)

Just when you think you are finally making progress then BAM! you find that you've just made a head-on collision with a blank wall.

Just when you think you are finally seeing light at the end of the tunnel then BAM! you realize that tunnel has given way to a bottom-less chasm.

So what's the way forward? Chronic Pessimism of the Murphy's Law kind? Do you kill the little optimistic fool within you called Hope who talks in a soprano voice and wears a frilly, gauzy pink dress? Hope can be pretty irritating especially when Fate her evil twin(who is stronger, fiestier and wears Army fatigues by the way) gets better of her all the time! Whenever Fate scores Hope comes up with cheery, sugary words....apparently to fortify us against the machinations of Fate, but annoying nevertheless.

Hope's annoying sure. But still I have a spot for the little old fool. So have you. So has the entire humanity. We all hope. It echoes strongly from the Obama slogan (Yes! We Can) to Aung San Suu Kyi's bid for democracy in Myanmar. That's perhaps why Fate despite being aggressive and combative has not been able to terminate Hope altogether. Not yet. Not ever. Hopefully.

Feeling better already. Hope just crooned a cheesy song about "how its gonna get better..." in my ears. I can't help but smile......:)