...somewhere "dark and grim"!
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by Philipina A. Marcelo
I've been absent - here - I know. I have "good" reasons - health concerns... and more. I've been trudging that unavoidable rough patch in this journey called "life"... and my sense of humor decided to walk out on me, too! What a wretched thing to do, I know... and by "it" - sense of (positive) humor - too, of all things... and now, of all times! Wasn't it supposed to stick with me in times like this? Especially in times like this? Oh, well... I take comfort in the promise of thermodynamics and chemistry... that when "disturbance" comes in "peaceful" situations, nature will favor that path where a "new peace" or equilibrium is achieved eventually. While the equilibrium point doesn't necessarily promise to be a heavenly situation... at least, it guarantees a situation where all opposing forces cancel out one another's effects! Hmmm... so, does "equilibrium" in life, therefore, mean a point of "numbness" - or immunity - from the good and the bad? Tolerance? Compromise? Acceptance? Being at peace with the "realities" of the situation - good or bad? Adaptation, perhaps? Wait... how come none of those words sounds appealing to me right now? Yes, I'm talking to you, good old cynism! :) Tsk, tsk... I'm beginning to dislike this "equilibrium thing"! Forgive me... obviously, I haven't found the "new peace". ;)
But, yeah, while I watch Lionel Messi in Copa America being most unfairly and unjustly derided so ridiculously by his own countrymen in Argentina, stuck with that phenomenal force of nature called Diego Maradona as his only sympathetic public defender (apart from me, of course... then again, I am not an Argentine), I am getting frustrated going around a block - an immovable boulder of a block, at that - in my own path. I wish it was just a research-related block, 'cause then moving it with all my strength and guts until the block destabilized, and then rolled away, should be fun! In fact, it's one of the most heavenly ways to get stuck... especially if you're a nerd, of course! :) But alas, it's not just research-related! Dang! Therefore, wish me luck! If luck had an influence on this "equilibrium thing" at all, that is! Otherwise, I'm going to have to re-write that law on equilibrium! Uhm... but don't count on it, lest I get royally stuck again, which is very likely! ;)
Dang, I just ranted again, didn't I?
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Image credit: grabbed from the awesome PHD comics website - thanks, thanks!
