The day history was erased

What do you do when your email account has been hacked? 

When some Nigerians try to get money out of your friends, acquaintances, near-strangers-who-gave-you-their-email-on-a-blue-Monday, your boss? 

When they subsequently delete all your emails from the beginning of the Internet, aka the beginning of time? 

When they also delete all the contacts you've built up over all that time? 

Think about it. What would you do? Cry? Smash your computer? Make voodoo dolls to torture those torturous hackers? Shake your fist at God? Start a blog?

No, first you do all the practical things, like changing your password and getting in touch with your provider to see what can be salvaged. And then you wait, hoping things will be restored to the pre-hacking days of yore. You stare at that inbox that says '10' instead of '3924' emails in disbelief and horror. You feel a great emptiness, a void never encountered before ... and then ... SPACE, the final frontier - oh, darn, I've escaped into Star Trek again - I mean, simply s p a c e.

I guess there is such a thing as a fresh start. Once you've squeezed through the funnel and come out the other end you realise it's not the end. Not the end of the world anyway. Not the end at all. 

We seek reassurance, comfort, recognition. We think we've found it, in social media, in marriage, in religion; we think we're safe. But we never are. And maybe that's not a bad thing. I don't even need to tell you why. You've heard all the clichés about 'getting out of your comfort zone' and into the world, finding 'yourself' again and all that. But even that is irrelevant. Because, truth be told, all we want is to experience, sometimes a little peace, sometimes a huge melodrama. 

So, I had a bit of melodrama. Now I can have some peace again.

Mmm, not much of a blog, this first one, but I'm sure I'll get into the swing of things sooner or later. Well, not sure exactly..., I just hope ..., except I don't believe much in hope, so ... Ah, darn again! I so wanted to be interesting!

Meanwhile, I would say: don't try to 'think positive' - sometimes life just stinks. In fact, I'd like to quote that great inspirer who said: "Try not. Do or do not; there is no try."

Having said that, I'll keep trying to write a better blog, so don't give up on me yet!