2010: Sublime Flux
Everyone has something profound to say once they have “made it,” whatever that “making it” may entail for that individual—making a certain amount of money, buying one house or many, getting married, having children or seeing them happily married, degree(s), fame, promotion, “security”, fill-in-the-blank. I want to talk about when you feel so far from “making it” that you can’t even spell it! I want to point at the stream of cataclysms of the betwixt and between. Events, one right after another, which lead you to finally conclude that life is really just that: one big transition. Death might be the only full stop—the rest of life is a series of commas, semi-colons, and any other punctuation point of your liking which serves as a pause or connector but never quite an end. The glorious in.be.tween which pushes you to Be and Become. (What this means on a personal level, specifically in relation to my recent stay in Jo’burg, I will share later).
Volatile stock market to the global recession to Michael Jackson’s death to the turbulent changes in the lives around us: 2009 sucked. There is no other eloquent way to put it. If it didn’t suck for you: congratulations. I really mean that. Not being cynical at all. I am very happy that the events in your world can restore the balance in the universe for the rest of us.
