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Believe me people, I had a wonderful topic lined up for today, something short and sweet (not cloying sweet, just ordinary sweet-sweet) that could be written in as short as eight sentences or less, which sort of made it the exact thing ordered for a Microblog Monday. But …..for the life of me I cannot remember anything of it.
Never mind, I had thought optimistically when I failed at recalling it this evening. It will come to me in a while, may be by the time I reach home. The tuk-tuk in which I was returning, together with the uneven roads (a conspiracy, I tell you!), had me well and truly shaken (but not stirred) that the topic was still nowhere in sight by the time I reached home; assuredly in one piece, but very loosely fitted.
Methinks, the topic slipped off its perch and fell through some loophole, went rolling and has ended up in the sludge in some remote outpost of my brain. Retrieval seems a difficult prospect as of now, almost an uphill task.
But do you know what cheers me up? The thought that when tomorrow it drags its sorry self to the forefront and sets the memory lights blinking brightly, Monday would long be gone and it couldn’t hope to get top billing (or any sort of attention from me) till Monday next. Gotcha there you recalcitrant topic!
©Shail Mohan 2017
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It shivered and shook, then fell into a pothole where it was drowned in a plethora of expletives as one tyre after the next rode over it and squashed all hope of recovery!
I don’t wonder. That’s why it hasn’t returned still! 😉
Evil topic ghosted!
Great post, thanks for the smile.
Yes! 🙂 Thank you! 😀
Haha! I hate it when that happens…but love that you found a way to have fun with it!
Yeah, it’s really annoying when they slip away like that. Thanks! 🙂
Oh isn’t that common to happen with us? I love the way you penned that thought and got it here. Great writing, Shail.
Thanks, Parul. Yeah, I guess it happens to most of us! 🙂
I have had so many brilliant blog post ideas that have disappeared just like this. I hope the idea returns to you, so I get to read it. But in the meantime, excellent blog about blogging!
Thank you, Mali. We do lose a lot of them, don’t we?
Them ideas(and host of other things)
Them ideas between crevices in the brain they interpose;
And having got there they go off to doze;
the harder you try to pull them out the deeper it goes;
what to do of these memory lapses, the old age woes.
Aha. Old eh? 🙂