Above : The second mouse that came outta the vortex
Total Perspective Vortex is allegedly the most horrible torture device to which a being can be subjected to. When you are put in the vortex you are given just one momentary glimpse of the entire unimaginable infinity of creation, and somewhere in it a tiny little mark, a microscopic dot which says, "You are Here!". If the vortex is to be taken seriously, then it is truly a brilliantly horrible creation.
I think all of us enter the Vortex every now and then.
Some return to it sooner than others. But everybody does time in it.
That dreading feeling of helplessness. That haunting thought of life not really moving anywhere. Doubt. Confusion. Frustration. At that point in life you do feel that microscopic dot on that microscopic dot. You look around, seeking confidence, seeking motivation, seeking an aim. You turn up with nothing but sand.
I just spent three weeks in the vortex - harsh solitary confinement.
The road goes only in two directions from here. One is the Zaphod Beeblebrox way, and the other is the Second Mouse way. We'll start with the Zaphod Beeblebrox way first. Our man ZB got an artificial universe created for especially for himself. That alternate universe had a planet FrogStar World B (just like the original one) which had the Total Perspective Vortex device on it. So Zaphod entered the device in his own artificial universe and when the machine showed him "You Are Here", Zaphod conveniently assumed that it meant that the device was simply telling him that he was the most important being in the universe (it was his universe afterall).
At this point of time I would also like to deduce that Douglas Adams had probably the most awesome substance induced trips in the universe.
So this first road essentially is all about recalibrating the priorities and emotions to suit the current situation.
The second one, however, is the even more interesting one and comes from Catch me if you can.
There were two mice who were put in two separate glasses full of milk. The first mouse panicked and splashed around, trying to come out of the glass. Eventually it got tired, drowned and died. The second mouse, however, decided not to splash around. Instead, he started churning the milk. He churned the milk so hard, that the milk eventually got converted to butter and he finally climbed on top of it and got out of the glass.
And just as Christopher Walken says in Catch Me If You Can, "I am that second mouse".
That, my dear (one-or-two) friends, is the twisted explanation for Why Suds 3.0.
As for the rest of the title, "O Brother ! Why Bother ?". It's an expression ... a shrug.
I've been blogging for the last 4 years now (VERY on-and-off). I've grown from a blogger account to photo-blogs to own-domain Suds 2.0 to now Suds 3.0. All of it has been very futile. I sincerely believe that people blog either because they think that they have something very important to say or because they have the Zaphod Beeblebrox mentality (explained above). For some reason, now, I have neither. Imagine this, just out of kicks I contacted Google Adsense for putting ads on my blog ... and they returned a message which essentially meant "your blog has nothing of value, it is pure un-adultrated crap ... so we don't think we wanna waste our breath on it".
So this one's gonna be nothing but a shrug. A microscopic dot as seen from the Total Perspective Vortex. A story of the second mouse.
Oh and one last thing. The image has changed from the Fallout 3 capture earlier on to the bike because ... well ... coz I bought a Bul't :D (The punjabi pronounciation of it).
