So, here’s the thing about fate and causality: if you know something is supposed to happen, is it better to simply let it happen and not screw with the trouser legs of time and multiverses and all that jazz, or attempt to prevent it from happening and defeat causality and potentially kill yourself and all mankind because Fate is a butterfly that might be eaten by the garden spider of Nopredestiny? I mean, we’re kind of a weird species in that we’ll believe any dumbass thing about rigged elections without a shred of evidence, but faced with the potential to wipe ourselves out by ignoring well-established science, we’ll chuckle and say, “Never gonna happen.”
All that is simply pondering, however, because I didn’t get the chance to test it (causality I mean, not mankind’s and especially American stupidity, because that hardly needs further proof,) since I failed to realize it was a holiday until after it was too late. What’s the event? Why, Get Busted By A Cat While Attempting to Procure the Month-end Abstract, of course – where have you been?
Yeah, I knew the holiday was coming up, I simply lost track of the days, and was reminded of it when the light from the headlamp caught Little Girl here, but by then it was already too late to consider just not celebrating it. In many cases I’m not even specifically trying to take an image intended for the month’s end, it simply happens sometime during the month, but not this time, partially because I haven’t been shooting much. Most of the search this evening took place well away from any windows that the cat had access to, so it would have been easy to avoid – but then what would happen if I eradicated the holiday in this manner (especially since there aren’t a whole lot of other people even trying for month-end abstract images – it’s kind of a stupid holiday, when you think about it)? Did I, entirely by accident, save the world from a horrendous fate? Does that deserve recognition in the form of a nice red velvet cake and perhaps a Tamron SP AF 180mm F/3.5 Di LD (IF) macro lens, or is there no such thing as an accidental hero? We’ll never know for sure, but the lens is a nice gesture to split the difference, I would think.
I did succeed in getting the abstract, by the way – more than one, and you’ll see them shortly. Meanwhile, you still have a little time yourself to take up shooting an abstract image for the end of the month, then hang around the windows until your cat notices (perhaps even time to get a cat if needed) – though, again, does this count as Getting Busted if you not only know it’ll happen, you help it along? Hey, you can court the destruction of the universe in that way, I’m staying out of it.