...with shattered faith in Providence.

Ever wondered why you feel that you and your wits are suddenly pitted against the conspiracies of the cosmos when every damn thing proceeds in a highly obnoxious and the least desired way? Ever wondered why on earth, or for that matter any goddamned planet in the universe, things go wrong when we least want or expect them to? And ever wondered why such things that go wrong are so large in number and that these things go wrong with such ferocity that they cannot help but start a train of mishaps that culminates into we being pulled down into a deep well of misery and hopelessness, shattering your faith in Providence?

Wondering about such tragedies that befall you can be such a painfully frustrating experience, if at all you happened to be pulled down into a deep well of misery and hopelessness. Those who know what I am talking about would agree. Those who don’t know what I am talking about would agree in the end.

When such tragedies do fall upon me, I do not hesitate whatsoever to suggest to the saying, “Whatever happens, happens for the good” to rather rot in bloody hell, more specifically to that “whatever” and to that “good”. Blast them!

Ever wondered how it feels when you call someone from you mobile phone and the call lasts for a minute and 2 seconds, specially when you are running low on credit? Ever wondered how it feels when you are running late for college, quite a good, few kilometers away, and your bus stops at every goddamned possible traffic signal on the route just to make the journey “perfect”? Don’t even try wondering, you would fail, for it’s beyond human capacity, without experiencing it. It’s a painfully frustrating experience, and suddenly but surely, you are enlightened that you are really being pulled down into a deep well of misery and hopelessness, shattering your faith in Providence.

Oh well, science knows and explains about these I-am-sure-this-the-Wrath-of-the-Gods tragedies. Read: Murphy’s Law. It states: “Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong.” The Law is sometimes further extended to “Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong at the worst possible time.” A classic example: A buttered toast will always fall on the buttered side, just when you are about to eat it, if at all it falls, which inevitably becomes the case. Ironically, or rather not so ironically, the Law doesn’t apply as a subset of something useful; rather it doesn’t act so that we profit by its action. But then, there’s a bit of complexity, as in all laws of science, in Murphy’s Law as well, to save humans from going down the deep well. It’s called the Silverman’s Paradox. The Paradox is: "If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it will." Now that's a bit of relief! More reassuringly, the Law doesn’t hold good for, or it doesn’t act on unsuspecting beings. By this, I mean, Murphy’s Law won’t act if the person concerned doesn’t know about it. You would think you are saved the misery because you didn’t know about the Law. But think again, I just endowed that knowledge upon you. No, this wasn’t my plan to seek revenge, get even nor take out my frustrations, but just my plan to spread the word about this very interesting Law. Effectively it’s the same, but I had and still have noble intentions, really. Please search it up on Wikipedia, the link to that article being: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%27s_Law

Coming to think about it, I wonder what if Murphy never came across his Law. In any case, that doesn’t matter now, now that the Pandora’s, or rather Murphy’s Box is opened, which again is an example of acting of Murphy’s Law itself: “If Pandora’s, or rather Murphy’s Box can be opened, it will be opened.” So you see, Murphy’s Law is perpetual, for there might have arisen a doubt somewhere in time as in “Does something like Murphy’s Law exist?” or “Will something like Murphy’s Law act?”, which is a wrong, ofcourse with some different name possibly, which would then, as the Law states, result in arguments such as “If something like Murphy’s Law can exist, it will exist” or “If something like Murphy’s Law can act, it will act”. But this Law certainly touches upon an interesting topic to think upon (please read the article on Wikipedia, it's worth a read, really!), a food for thought for that matter and more certainly sheds light upon the fact that this Law has a number of uses. For example, it’s used to make a product “idiot-proof.” It makes use of the Law as in if there exists a way to wrongly use a product, there would be atleast someone in the world to use the product in that wrong way. Using this hypothesis, the product is so designed that the wrong way is very difficult to follow so that the product becomes “idiot-proof”. But then again, by Murphy’s Law, if a product can be wrongly used, it will be wrongly used, no matter how “idiot-proof” you make it. This is often expressed as "Make something idiot-proof, and they will build a better idiot."

Bloody hell! It’s all wrapped up one inside the other! I hope I am not incorrect when I feel that you wouldn’t disagree with me if I rather suggest that Murphy and his Law, and consequently me and my post successfully proved to be a real pain in the tosh. This was inevitable though, for if someone or something can prove to be a real pain in the tosh, then someone or something will prove to be a real pain in the tosh.

And when I said, “Those who don’t know what I am talking about would agree in the end”, I didn’t mean exactly this end, for you now know the Murphy’s Law, and the train has just started. Have a nice ride, with shattered faith in Providence.