Sometimes I really feel that life is like the schrödinger's cat, especially in
those moments where life itself is pregnant with change and I feel that whiff
that anything is possible. I often tell myself that all I have to do is to focus
on my happiness and when the box is opened the cat will still be there. But the
thought that the cat will die drives me nuts with anxiety, and I end up
obsessively checking the box, only to realise that my state of mind will
inevitably lead to the most undesired outcomes. Than I am reminded that whatever
happens to the cat has little to do with my mind but with very material events
which are random and unpredictable yet interconnected. So yes in a way my state
of mind influences the course of events just as so many other things. So deep
inside I know it is better let go of the cat and the experiment and just live. I
don’t have to check the box to know the cat is alive. There is even a strong
possibility that I won’t even capture the moment and the cat would have simply
left the box on its own, perhaps having evolved in to a highly evolved
super intelligent cat bent on turning the whole town in to catland, a cat which
pranks the powerful and the corrupt. I would have unleashed a cat like Behemoth.
And perhaps I won’t even be able to figure out whether its the same cat or not.
For even if it survives, it won’t be the same cat after such an experiment. Cats
have a habit of coming along the way, by some sheer random coincidence when
least expected. They can’t stay long enough. Still betting on the law of
probablity. One thing I bet on; receiving a hand written letter written in cat
language which I have to spend the rest of my life deciphering. Or even better a
knock on the door from Behemoth with an invitation to join a merry team of
pranksters in a voyage from one station to the next along the Trans Siberian
railway.
P.S. I checked the box and the cat died.
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