- Hemingway.
Do not abruptly ‘expect the unexpected’ in 2013. Since the political stalemate of our sovereign nation is as stable as our average cannonballs, we’ll have to refrain from it because we really don’t know what to expect - if anything, from politicians this year who are the virtuoso of apprehensions. There are other decadent anticipatory issues this year: The nuclear undertakings in Iran or North Korea, the rift on islands between China and Japan, fiscal downturns in USA’s economic challenges while China and Brazil continue to grow, or the images of Libyan or Syrian revolutions: details of which we deliberately try to forget.
Most of the anticipatory issues really are a subject to an individual’s perceptions and I might need to re-examine my views next week or a month from now; but for now, 2013 seems redeeming, for a few days at least when the entertainment industry gifts us with ‘The Hangover 3’, ‘Jobs’, ‘Kick-Ass 2’ and ‘The Incredible Burt Wonderstone’ – the latter two starring Jim Carrey! Still you’d have unhealthy anticipations of movies that you know are going to be bad (‘Beautiful Creatures’?) but you might just end up watching them in LD (Low Definition) like 3D because of a persisting friend or family member in relativity tooled embittering moments.
We’re also living in times where most people have their own personal pseudo religious cult which adheres to no particular models of specific scriptures. Alcohol and food occupies a good percentage of that religion much like Pablo’s pets on every regard but most of us live by and appreciate ‘temporary highs’, the only gratification or specific pseudo religious trend that will universally continue this year and a long time to come. Ergo, we’ll have festivals, holidays, vacations and social networking this year too.
The technological aspects of the coming months might manifest in scientific summits and I’ve been waiting for hover boards, movie glasses or automatic cars to come around with affordable price tags. Kaspersky predicted that in 2013 there’d be sophisticated mobile threat on various apps, so we’d need technological services that can be trusted, not to mention faster internet (electricity included) because I wouldn’t want my niece to disappear the next time we Skype. I was looking forward to finally finish reading the hardcopy of Skeleton Crew, a short fiction collection by Stephen King, but then I might finally get a new e-reader and find another lame excuse for not finishing the hard copy.
2013 and the TV highlights the Egyptians weary of hardships because of political instability and in coming months they might be facing a deepening economic crisis. There could be sadder headlines of climate change and there could be an iconic new horrific issue that nobody in the world had anticipated previously but as bonus we may have to morbidly worry about it in 2017 too.
Ed Rusca describes lucidly that he likes art which he’s not ‘in anticipation of’, hinting that maybe it is best to not have any huge expectations or anticipation of anything, not unless they’re good enough to begin with. We do not need to treasure the valueless anticipations of every corner of the world this year, but our individual nation could learn a lesson or two from other nation’s downfalls and highs for improving and improvising, to become strong before being broken again.
The writer is a student at London School of Commerce (LSC) in London, UK.
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