Plug and Play

Currently Listening To :: All I Need Is You :: Guy Sebastian

With the amount of driving that I do with my job, I get to spend a lot of time thinking in between stops (as well as stuffing my face with junk foods and singing at the top of my lungs). Important questions such as "What are some simple steps to saving the world?", "I wonder what it'd be like to hang out with Johnny Depp?" and "How does one match a shirt, tie and suit pocket square correctly?" all spring to mind.

I've also been meaning to get a slick headset to go with my new phone. However, since I've been too lazy to go look for it properly, I seem to spend a lot of time playing around with my headset, sometimes to the point where I have to take a call and basically yell at my caller until I find and plug my handsfree in.

Which makes me think...should I take the call first and fumble around looking for my handsfree, potentially causing a serious accident, or should I just wait until I find the handsfree, taking the chance of missing an important call for the payola of uninterrupted talk-time?

Taking this one step further, the same could be applied to relationships (then again, what can't?) It's the age old conundrum, involving elements such as timing, adages such as striking when the iron is hot, and a dangerous Bermuda Triangle called the Friends Zone, where possibilities are lost, never to return.

Having tried both approaches, I can't say that one is preferable over the other. At times, I feel like my experience is so limited by circumstance, by factors beyond my control. I used to ask myself "if I had the chance to play things differently, would I have?"

But really, I don't think so. The person I am today is not only a function of the experiences I've had, but just as importantly the ones I've missed out on as well. So while I may have been friends with a girl and then asked her out, chances are, if I had asked her out straight away the outcome would have been the same.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that a connection made is a connection that will usually stay, at least until something has been done about it. Real feelings will continue to burn slowly, while the quickest of strikes with the hammer will yield no change from cold, blunt metal...only sparks that fade as quickly as they flared.

So before you plug and play, best to check your connection first. Why waste a whole lot of money, time and angst when you should have read the instructions in the first place?

Still, nothing is infallible, least of all relationships. No matter how strong a connection you may have, there's always the chance of going through tunnels. You just have to make that decision to re-connect if the chance presents itself; hopefully, the connection will still be clear.

"Hello?"