A wall, a vice, and the wait.

Imagine an insurmountable wall. And sorry, you don't have enough might to break it. Frankly, you don't know if anyone has the might to break it. Now, imagine that you are surrounded by such a wall. No way in, no way out. You try to move around, hoping that there is an exit somewhere in the crevices of the wall. Alas. You beat the wall, push it, bang against it with your arms, and do everything that you think will get the way out of your way, but to no avail. You smile at your own helplessness. Screaming for help.... sounds like the most futile of exercises. For there is no one. It's just you and the wall. All the remaining figures you see, are just kept there. Its all part of a set-up. No one's hearing. Deaf, useless impotence.. Just that realization struck a tad bit too late. The brain's suffocating due to an overdose of blood to the head. Your extremities feel limp. The human body.. at the time of adversity, sends all its resources to the vital parts of the body, which are supposed to be threatened in flight-or-flight situations. Basically, at a time when you are required to have your weapons ready, your body conspires in favor of the adversity staring you in the face, and turns you into a sitting duck. Strangely, the body can be tricked to do just the opposite under adversity. Only that not many of us know the trick.

By the way, All of a sudden, you do find a space in the wall to escape through. It seems too good to be true. You're FREE!

 Now the big question. Do you pride yourself for having figured a way to escape through the wall? Or did the wall allow you to think so?

Same with the vice. The vice's grip cannot be loosened using a crowbar. Once it clamps onto something, the grip is so strong that the clamped object is left with the marks of the vice's tractive patch. Either that, or the clamped object gets crushed under the force of the clamp's grip force. And from nowhere, your hands, that were very much in the clamp's grasp, are now free from the shackles of the clamp's grip. So really... you're that strong, eh?

The wait...

This is something new I've learned out of the little marketing I've forced myself to get involved in. Here's the deal. In a duel, if stakes are high, put all your cards  on the table. In most cases, we never really put all our cards on the table. And so, we never get to know what an all out high stakes position looks like. Chances are that if one side has put all it's cards on the table, and by that, i mean, ALL THE CARDS on the table, the other side too has thrown in everything it's got. And you know what? After that, it is just a matter of time. Just wait. Because the first one who talks........... loses. The "What?" is the opponent's cry of helplessness. And it is a rhetorical question!

Strange ways the mind and body work in.