The whole of the human race has problems of some kind- in the sense that there are very few people in this world who can boast that they do not have problems (candidates for the first prize in this award category happen to be forgotten ascetics in the Himalayas, and others who do not classify as people in the complete sense- me not included, for I myself happen to have a healthy collection of problems myself. But I digress. I think I love digressing, since I do it so often, but now I’m digressing again, which reiterates my earlier statement, which confirms the next, which further strengthens the first, and this is proving to be a horrible vicious cycle. In short I digress).
Anyways, coming back to the topic at hand, I did a little bit of research in the field of human problems, and discovered that, all in all there was one fundamental problem that plagues humanity, and plagues it to such an extent that it forms the cause of every other problem in the world. That one problem was that of how one had to disentangle one’s earphone wires when one pulled the earphones out of their pocket to use them.
I’m sure that regular earphone users will know exactly what I’m talking about, but I think I will take this opportunity to explain the concept to the poor uneducated masses (and digress a little bit). You see dear children, what happens is that you use your earphones when you are listening to music on a portable player, or having a conversation on your cell phones. And when you are done with your earphone-occupying activity, you extract them from you’re ears and fold them neatly and put them in your pocket for future use. But (surprise, surprise), when you remove the earphones from your pocket the second time when the opportunity for future use does arise, you find that they are all tangled up again!
Now here are the facts: you kept them inside in as orderly a fashion as you could; you didn’t disturb the arrangement for as long as it was inside that pocket; but when you pulled it out, it was as tangled as a Medusan wig!
The first question that arises is how in the world did that happen? Or rather, how in the pocket did that happen? But it is futile to try and answer this question, as for that I would have to take you into the mysterious realms of the pocket world, and I do not wish to digress so much also (although this field has received much pondering by Professor Hushval Shatska, just casually mentioning). So, the next question is: how do we get rid of it?
And the answer to this is, sadly, that we almost cannot get rid of it. For you see, we cannot do anything about when it is inside, and not keeping them inside the pocket to avoid the situation is hardly an option because they’re already a part of that system. It’s like terrorism- you cannot fight it the conventional way, for it exists because of conventional fighting, and you cannot isolate it, as it has become part of the system.
Perhaps what can work is that all of us either achieve that state of perfection and balance and harmony within ourselves, so that the realms of our pockets may be stabilized and the earphones do not get tangled in the first place. Or we could just go on living the way we do, and keep dealing with the entangled earphones every time need them, and have to lose time, effort and energy in disentangling the situation. It’s really a lot like terrorism isn’t it?
