Saturday, April 19, 2008

If it is not about the legs, what was it all about then?

The mind, the brain, the brain-hand co-ordination that helps TheNamesake, as he types this post out, and the brain-leg detached attachment that while constantly and continuously instructs him to keep running. And at the same time, detached because the brain doesn't sense signals from his legs giving in due to muscle fatigue, until about half a day later.
If all this is not what its all about, the only part of the human body worth considering, is that pitiable, empathy and simultaneously sympathy producing organ - The Human Heart.
In a way, This, is all about the Human Heart.
This post, certainly is.
This blog, for the most part, is about the human heart too.
It may not be directly or in a straightforward manner be about the heart, but TheNamesake, can only confess this much - That, this blog has mostly been about something, that was the making of TheNamesake's own heart. He may not really be human, but he certainly had a human heart.
He is not heartless in the true sense now, but don't lose heart my friend; TheNamesake's sincere advise to the reader and non-reader alike is this - Don't lose heart - TheNamesake himself has sworn to never lose heart.
He says,

"People should be open to the idea of losing their heart, like I have; but they should never lose heart. "

Call it romantic hope, call it Quixotism ; You wouldn't be far from the truth; But you would probably never get to the bottom of it. For in a way, it is a bottomless pit.
May be what seems to be a bottomless pit, opens into an other universe, something of the sort he vaguely remembers reading about one of Stephen Hawking's initial speculation about Black holes and event horizons in "A Brief History of Time" - one of the first books he can recollect reading.
Now, this may need further elaboration -

Nothing can escape a Black hole - It has such a magnitude of Gravitational Pull, that even Visible Light or "Information" entering its "Event Horizon" will get sucked in, and will be lost to "The Universe" as we know it.

So, there are some people, places, ideas and objects that first catch our attention and attract us so much, that you kinda get dragged in, and you get lost.
If Oscar Wilde had to describe the phenomenon of being "charmed" in his own language, he would say this:

"I knew that I had come face to face with someone whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself."

But here is the aftermath - well, all is not over just yet - So here is the current aftermath, and speculation about the future aftermath -

Stephen Hawking (before 2004) had speculated that, the singularity (hypothetical) at the centre of the Black hole, may have a bridge to a "baby universe" through which information passes - since technically information cannot be "lost".

Now, this is probably what has happened. There are BlackHoles around us, we would never be aware of - there is no way an unsophisticated village bumpkin can foresee their presence - TheNamesake's probably fell into it one fine day, sometime last year, and since then, "moved on" to another universe, a "baby universe", to use Hawkin's hypothesis.

Since then, I, the author of this blog, have been bringing his stories to you - the confused yet curious reader.

Stories of TheNamesake shall continue to be telecast - Please don't ask me to get into the details of how TheNamesake and I communicate with each other.

So, having, in a way confused the curious reader a bit more about
"What is it all about?",

I shall now leave you with the following message:

These are testing times. For TheNamesake, in more ways than one, these are testing times. Apart from the immediate testing times associated with "terminal" examinations, the testing times ahead are even more thought provoking and invoking.
Mark "invoking". It might help you understand things better. And then, the reader cannot complain that there weren't enough clues to answer that one big question in big font above.
Apart from the clues earlier presented to you, like the box right on top of the page, this is one other "clue".
If you still claim to have no clue of whats happening, you are technically wrong.
You can't claim to have no clues. In fact, you have two big clues now.

The testing times shall see TheNamesake through TheCapital and YeahRightBank, before cooling his head and legs apart from cooling his heels at TheCity. What happens during, and after those times is only something time could have told us.
Unfortunately, this time around, even time cannot tell us, since the BlackHole analogy involves a spacetime singularity - even time cannot tell us.

For now, until the less testing times are over, think about this -

If you thought "Time" hits you, or us, or them, or TheNamesake hard, permit me to, in the context of this discussion, suggest that Gravity hits us all the hardest.

To answer the question the title of the post asks, and the dismissive answer the title of the blog itself puts forth, here is a hint -

Figure the BlackHole analogy out, and you get very close (close to the event horizon as well!)
And then, figure the Horizon of this blog out, and you get closer. (Not closer to the Event Horizon, but closer to what this is all about!)

P.S: The "Horizon" as I last mentioned, just above, refers to you know what - the thing between the blue sky (the blue ribbon at the top of this browser content window), and the BlackEarth, the Black/Darkness surrounding this entire blog text/content). So, the Horizon, here, refers to the box. For once, think out of the box while thinking about the box ;-)