What is coincidence really? A series of events lined up in unpredictable sequence that
have a pattern of probability or is it lady luck rammed, jammed via fellatio and there's a twist to the order of things? I don't believe in coincidences no more than I invest in luck or fortune... Because its easy for us to believe that we are microscopic entities in a larger and more profound system... a world that spins with purpose... a higher purpose as it were. And there's nothing we can do about it.
A man who has won a lottery crosses the road gets hit by a bus... is that bad luck or a mere coincidence? Or is it a cruel sense of irony?
A woman returns home after getting a promotion at work and slips and falls down the stairs and breaks her neck so her wind pipe juts out of her lacerated throat... that can't be a parody of any sort.
A child gets school holidays is excited to go home and then a bomb goes off... how could that be a part of a bigger pattern or a larger complex cycle?
The problem with coincidence is that to endorse and accept it is kind of like playing poker with a blind fold isn't it? How can we just say 'let come what may' and sit on our asses and let our lives be affected by the environment around us... us humans are brilliant at a lot of things that don't deserve acknowledgment or credit. Its said the dinosaurs ruled and roamed the earth almost 65 million years ago right? Creatures that somehow lived and survived all its conditions for millions of years finally kicked the bucket when their time was nigh. It was their time. They had their time. Lets trace back the earliest point of discovery when human civilizations roamed the earth: even if it was rubbing their nutsacks together to start a fire... shall we say 5 or 6 thousand years back at the very most. Lets go back even before Egypt, before Rome, Greece and Persia... That boils down to the Minoan and Mycenaean Civilizations right? In roughly 6000 years which is an ant in an anthill practically in contrast to the earth's historical backdrop of 65 million years and in that short time humans have proven to be the smartest, most articulate, creative, obstinate, psychotic and self obsessed species quite possibly in the galaxy.
We've used science to create bio-chemical and nuclear weapons... We've used commerce and economy to control the fiscal properties of the globe... We've used peace as a slogan to take the shimmer off wars... And we beat each other to a bloody pulp for power, status, wealth and all those things that ultimately don't mean fuck all when you die.
Is this coincidence or is it fated to be so? So here I am having a hard fucking time getting over some things that have happened to me and my friends in the last week:
* I dislocated my right knee cap (and hold yourselves for this folks) while SLEEPING. This happened day before yesterday.
*The emergency ward and hospital fucking ripped me a new one... the Orthopedician pokes and prods me and then tells me to come back in a WEEK for an MRI scan?!?
*We get a superfast internet connection, get the Agency running with work cascading in and then the PC goes bust... entire c drive is wiped out.
* Tenny's grandma passes away and with all the stuff that's happening we couldn't even be there for him and attend the funeral which was in Chilaw and quite far away.
*We had a photo shoot with a leading publication today and the photographer has fallen through a lose concrete slab on a pavement and busted his back.
*My mom calls me and says her work place (an INGO company) is shutting down and she has to find a job.
*A friend of ours has been electrocuted and her boyfriend has scorched his leg as a direct result of being in the same room... which is crazier than my dislocated kneecap.
...and there's more... now all of this has happened in quick succession and some might say 'wow, that's a pretty messed up coincidence'... whatever it is... I am certain that we will prevail because I am the kind of son of a gun that likes to kiss my middle finger and hold it out to fate and anything else that stands in my way (with one somewhat dysfunctional leg now... and we have so many gigs ahead!!!).
Is it the lunar tides or something to do with the plantery alignment? I don't know and I don't give a bugs backside about it... We are focused and driven and will not stop until well we are permanently errrr stopped.
All I know is we have an Agency to run now... We have a Third Album which is a work in progress for almost a year now and we won't rest till its the way we want it (trying to facilitate an independent recording in a country with a musical infrastructure equivalent to ass gravy is like finding a needle in an ocean) and then there's my studies; I gotta do my second stage of CIM AND then there's my novel which I am working my cute butt off on.
Though I must admit being pushed around in a wheelchair around a supposedly 24 hour surgical hospital with the place empty (like from a Stephen King novel) and seeing that everyone was asleep was petrifying but kinda fun at the same time (the wheelchair part).
So that's what happened in the last few days and if there ever was a time when I could come close to becoming someone's SUB it's now. Shits gone crazy and is flying all over the place it seems and I fucking swear whatever the next few days has in store for us (and me) we'll take it head on. But don't and I mean DO NOT tell me this is all a coincidence.
That's all.
