Closed. The boat sank, the sharks won.

I write. I like to play with words and language. Witchy Woo will attest that at times I get a phrase in my head and have to explore it or use it. The last one was Exsanguination.

ex·san·gui·nate [eks-sang-gwuh-neyt]  to drain of blood; make bloodless; to bleed to death

Fabulous word that, really rolls from your lips and flows beautifully. It has a softness and a sibilance that I love. I used it but not in a scene that involved bloodloss.

The phrase that is fascinating me at the moment is Paradigm Shift.  It’s wonderful isn’t it?

Think of a Paradigm Shift as a change from one way of thinking to another. It’s a revolution, a transformation, a sort of metamorphosis. It just does not happen, but rather it is driven by agents of change.

I am slowly looking at the world in a whole new way. My attitudes are changing. It’s like the world is slipping sideways and I can’t keep my balance. Someone or something keeps slapping me in the back of the head and I sit here with my words gone, apoplectic, stunned in my anger.

ap·o·plec·tic   (āp’ə-plěk’tĭk)

Of, resembling, or produced by apoplexy: an apoplectic fit.Extremely angry; furious: 

I am unable to type coherently and yet the words somehow flow anyway. My world has become fluid and I must become harder to stay stable amongst the free flowing liquid forms. It would be easy to allow myself to be washed away, to conform to the malformed patriarchal structure that I am being pushed into. Life could be so easy that way, just conform, be normal, do as you’re told.

But no. The Paradigm shift is happening, right here, in my head. Once shifted there is no going back. Once people discovered that the earth was a sphere there was no way to then believe  it to be still flat. There is now now way to sail off the edge.

To quote one of my favourite films:

My Mommy told me there was no such thing as monsters but there are, aren’t there?

There are. They live amongst us and we accept them and allow them to define us and force us to be how they wish. They do it so subtly that we don’t even see it. Unless the paradigm shift happens. Then we see. Then we get angry.