Tag: Performing Arts

Crash, chaos and control

Ship sinking and plane crashing. Lives in chaos and lessons in control.

We keep trying.

To make sense of our lives. To derive meaning from it.

Try always to be the Captain of our own destiny.

Sweat not the small stuffs.

Focus on the big picture: the 3 E’s i.e. economy, environment and education.

Ask not.

Character in chaos.

Just as you thought you were in control, things crashed and burned.

Alarm goes off.

Chaos again.

Like a magician juggling multiple balls.

Add one more ball into the routine. Then one more.

Orderly. In control.

Then, the audience grows bored.

They want chaos, even a crash.

Hard to please.

I-phone 4, then more.

When is it going to stop?

Blue tooth and Google Glasses.

Ring the bell, the dog salivates.

With or without the meat.

Insatiate demand.

It’s not over until it’s over.

Trading up at the store and downsizing at work.

Go figure!

Wealth imbalance. When was it not?

When you are on the wrong side of the track, stay there.

Things are what they are.

Ask not what your country can do for you.

Stay in control, but stay on your side of town.

Can we all get along?

Get fat, get fit

I was crunching, when the PA system announced “free pizza at Planet Fitness, 1st Monday of the month”.

Might as well. Indulge.  After all, it says “No judgment zone.”  Get fat, get fit.

Carrot and then Stick.

In a blog I recently subscribed to, I found : ” the extent that we help fulfill other people’s dream,we fulfill ours.”.

We know that life is not without paradox.

Past choices limit future options.

(We did not then have the benefits of hindsight).

Pleasure and pain intersect right there on the exercise mat: one more crunch, reverse crunch etc.. just to build up a better appetite (which gets us right back to the beginning).

Who among us lives without self-conflict, let him cast the first stone.

We want the oil, but also a  clean beach.

We dress up to see Les Miserables, at Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, but hurry up across the street when a homeless guy approaches.

And we can’t wait to tell others ” I told you so” when the chips are all down.

Pundits, politicians and pollsters, were in denial about the “black swan” of the Financial system, which gave us all a “black eye”.

A suicide here, and a robbery there. Not sure how the consequences will play out. Wall Street watches Main Street. Main Street waits on Wall Street. All one-way streets (as of this edit, unemployment in Greece still at 26.9 per cent).

There have been more migration to the dust bowl, where not too long ago, Dorothy couldn’t wait to leave home on a Greyhound bus. These states now seem attractive with tax incentives, and rural broadband connection.

And a story that we all missed: Vietnam was at the top of Emerging Countries chart 3 years in the row (2007-2010) even when they have yet exploited the wheels of industrialization. Just cheap and surplus of labor. But everyone seems to be fit, not by going to the gym, but by default (no “free pizza” every first Monday of the month.)

Here is our last paradox, in the absence of plenty, everything tastes sweeter. You should see how aggressive people were with Moon Cakes during the weeks that lead up to the Festival. It’s not the mix of flour and sugar. It’s flour and sugar that have been denied for years, and only recently made available and affordable to all. Free Moon Cake for every sign-up at Planet Fit.