Here we are with the 18th installment of the Random Alphabet of SRH. Today’s letter is a vowel. Today’s letter is the 5th letter of the English Alphabet. Today’s letter is the second letter of the vowel quintet. Today’s letter is E. Today’s letter was chosen via the more scientific method of looking at the remaining 9 letters of the alphabet (E, H, I, J, Q, S, V, Y, Z) and rolling a 10 sided die.
If I rolled a 0 I would roll again. I didn’t roll a 0 though. I rolled a 1. So here we are with E.E: A, B, C, D, E… e… e… Ear, Egg, Elephant, E… e… E…
E is one of those letters that I was not able to come up with a word immediately upon seeing the letter. Don’t get me wrong, it is an interesting letter linguistically. It can be silent yet affect the sound of a vowel preceding it. It is often associated with the ubiquitous schwa sound. The long version of its own vowel sound requires the letter to be a part of a vowel laden diphthong. Odd letter, that E. Upon further introspection the aspect of SRH-iness that came to mind with E was Either.
At its basic point either is about choice. One can do either this or this or this or this. One can choose this or this or this or this. To me either is the foundation for the concept of choice, and it is one of my personal philosophies that there is always a choice. There are never absolutes. Well, except for that one. There are always choices that can be made. Oh and I guess “always” implies an absolute as well. I am soooo not good at this. Some of the choices that are possible for any given event may not be very realistic or good for anyone involved or even not involved, but they exist.
Whenever someone tells me that they didn’t have a choice, I know that they did. They may have removed choices from being possible due to whatever, but they had a choice and they chose to do whatever action they did. This is not to say that when bad things happen to people it is necessarily their own damn fault because they chose to do whatever. It is to say that certain choices did allow for events to occur how the do/did.
I am a firm believer that nothing is truly inevitable. Choice and one’s navigation through life help drive how events unfold. When someone says something was inevitable, they are disregarding choices leading up to that “inevitability.” Either some will happen or it won’t, but if it happens or not I have helped create that eventuality by my own choices.
To recap:
I am not sure that either was a wise choice
Oh well
Some of these letters are just plain difficult
Not sure what is for dinner tonight
I might let Little Man choose
Cleaned up my desk at work
It is amazing how much better my workspace seems when it is clean
Well, tidy. It isn’t really clean
The surfaces need some scrubbing, but at least most of the clutter is gone
My shoulder is getting better, but it is still hurting somewhat
I need to sleep more
Have a great weekend everyone
Labels: History of SRH, the 26
5 Comments:
It heartens me to know that I am not the only adult (term used loosely) on the planet who still owns a D10!!!
But, dude, you rolled a one???? Remind me to never adventure with you! :-)
Later!
I'd like to point out that there is actually something very noteworthy about the letter E: it's the most common letter of the alphabet. One might say it goes with almost everything.
For someone who (rightly) lauds the virtues of vanilla ice cream, I'd think you would find plenty to admire in E's versatility.
And I'm with J.A. -- keep your low-rolling mojo to yourself. Unless we're playing GURPS, where low rolls are usually a good thing.
JA Coppinger:
Hey, I rolled a 1 right now because there aren't fantasy lives on the line. I get the 0 when it counts. It is best that I get all the ones out of the die when it doesn't matter anyway.
B:
E is an extremely versitile and useful letter, it is just difficult to find a word starting with E that encapsulates the essence of SRH.
I only related the story of the die roll to assure all my very skeptical readers that this is still a random process. This week I will be breaking out the D8
Why not extraordinary, like your tagline suggests?
I've always been fond of the word egregious.
Allrileyedup:
Well, these are great suggestions. I wish I had gotten them prior to posting.
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