This morning I woke with a blinding flashback to an earlier time, a time when the world’s pollution was joined as one, silently waiting in a collective crouch.
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Thanks Leo Reynolds
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Huddled, we waited for the Millennium Bug to strike and destroy civilization as we knew it. For planes to plummet, digital clocks to explode and computers to freeze on the last window opened….enough to make any teenage boy hanker for a copy of National Geographic.
Consequently, depending on your risk profile, you either spent that New Years Eve, celebrating one last big bang in the mile high club, or walking around the house in fluffy Millennium Bug slippers, trying to decide where to hang your latest framed novelty Millennium Bug decoration.
In hindsight we appear to have wasted a large amount of time, money, and anxiety that could have been better spent watching our mortgages double by the years end. The following day we simply moved on, and continued doing what we always had.
And so as my electronic diary clicked over to 11/11/11 this morning, I pondered how to acknowledge such a singularly important date. There being no great public fanfare to give me any guidance, I was left to my own devices……
Numerology told me that 11 is a ‘master number’, and as such suggests ‘the potential for a high degree of learning, or achievement and very often in a more stressful environment’. Great, so I have to learn or achieve something in a stressful environment.
Evidently master numbers also represent ‘an intensified version of the single digit’. Okay, but which single digit? Is it one or six, because if you add up all the digits in the date you end up with six? Hedging my bets I looked at both of them and found that ….
1 means initiating action, pioneering, leading, attaining, independent, or individual.
6 means responsibility, protection, nurturing, sympathy, community, balance.
So I am left with a couple of ideas to ponder today…
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What can I do today to take responsibility to sympathetically nurture the community, while maintaining my balance and independence? For some reason I see a penny-farthing involved which might be tricky, though it certainly would be individual …. and environmental nurturing.
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Alternatively I’ll be looking out for ways to learn or achieve something in a stressful environment? I may have already achieved this by trying to silently extract the only black jellybean from the bottom of a very crunchy packet, while sitting in the front row at a very important seminar. Adding more pressure, a couple of reporters keep glaring at me because they put their mini-recorders down right next to me.
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If that’s not enough, last night I tried to book a table for 11 people at the newest hip bar/restaurant, and learnt that the term ‘new hip bar/restaurant’ actually translates to ‘three month waiting list’.
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Where are the tacky pieces of commemorative merchandise when you need them?
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Or maybe it’s enough to simply stand quietly for twice as long at 11am and ponder the significance of the time?
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How will you get on today? Would love to know how you plan to mark the occasion.
2 Comments
I’m afraid 11.11am ran past me in a blur of children running around at playgroup, but I did remember that it was about to happen, at least.
I’m loving the image of you on a penny farthing. Even if I can’t work out what made you think of it.
Perhaps you need to do the black jellybean trick while at your morning tea with the Premier? (and I’m pleased to hear that there is someone out there who eats the black jellybeans. Yuck!)
Impossible to get kids to stop for 1 second at 11am, well done on remembering.
Don’t worry everyone has given up trying to fathom how my brain works,specialists included.
Black jelly beans accepted anytime.