Moonlit Sunshine

Call it the canopy effect to jargonize the phenomenon I wish to talk about today (the day I bounced back to blogging – (and there’s a tinge of alliteration (freak! I’m so glad I remember figures of speech! (ok, this is an annoying number of brackets)))) or whatever else you want to call it.

Canopy. How would you define it in a way that tells you what it is just by looking at its definition? Here’s how I would make a quiz definition for canopy. ‘One thing that encompasses everything’. And the G for Genius kid in the Parle-G shoots up his hand, opens his mouth before I ask him to and shouts ‘The SKY!!!’ And, swoosh. I need to change the definition of canopy. Well, sky is but a variant of canopy, or so I guess.

Whatever be the definition of canopy, I know that what makes sense here is what I want to do with this word now. The story of ‘Canopy in my head’ goes like this..
I just thought of writing a blog post today, after a while (within which my curls have started sprouting yet again (a deliberate attempt to notify those who do not know that I straighten my hair that I straighten my hair beyond all the miseries that come along the way of straightening the hair)). The minute I thought of writing a blog post, I thought about what different could I write from whatever I have written in the past. So, the thought flow went like this..

‘Something different – what’s different now – everything – everything is different – can I write about everything? – no, so let’s write about one thing that encompasses everything – canopy? – is that what you call it? – oh, so it so happens that when there is one change that happens in one’s life, it tends to change everything else gradually – a change that encompasses everything -- what would you call this phenomenon? – The Canopy Effect – So, here I go..’
I really am not sure what I am talking about right now but I know deep down inside that there is some sense in what I write because I usually make sense when I am random.

The Canopy Effect is hence, the phenomenon by which, one change in your life can cause a series of changes in different forms, within your life. So, it is, but, a canopy of change encompassing multitude of changes.

In my life, the most recent change was when I stepped out of an engineering college and entered into an MBA ‘college’. So, this was the first change (the canopy). The changes that followed:

- The meaning of ‘college’ changed.
- The meaning of ‘friends’ changed
- Time, that was once my leisure companion, began whipping me hard
- Hostel became home
- Day became the night; Night became the day
- Books became bigger
- The meaning of ‘I live everyday as it comes’ changed
- Social life was spent in post-post-meeting meetings
- Deadlines became life lines
- One cup of coffee meant a lot more than what it meant before
- PPT enjoyed the new-found attention I started giving it
- Excel was overjoyed that I’d end up using it one day and everyday ever since
- Life went from Wordsworth to (MS) Word’s Worth
- SmartArt never felt smarter
- I started witnessing competitions compete
- The one haunted question changed from ‘What will I become after growing up?' to ‘What will I become; a manager or a leader? (What’s the difference, anyway? )’
- The map just got snatched away.. The road became narrower..
- The meaning of ‘Life’ changed..

There’s more to say and more to come with time. This is just a glimpse of how one change encompasses so many other changes. It’s fascinating to see how you step into a different world and you see everything differently..

Nevertheless, as the cliché goes, the only thing constant is change. And we ought to embrace it along with the multitude of changes it brings with it..