Asymmetries in life.

Once upon a time I used to be all about symmetries. Pasting the name sticker right in the middle of my school notebook covers, having a center partition, placing one tic tac clip on each side of the partition, one bangle on each arm whenever I had to attend a wedding, either no nail paint on both hands or nail paint on both hands. I even used to believe that best friends come in pairs. That if someone is my best friend, I have got to be theirs and vice versa. That what people know and what they told me is symmetrical as well.

Things have changed now. After having written lengths and lengths of symmetric and well formatted reports in college and making presentations with symmetric boxes and texts, I long for asymmetry. I doodle my name all over my notebooks, my hair partitions on its own free will ( which is never in the center), I hardly can keep track of where those zillion tic tac clips I buy go and sometimes I don't even have the same nail paint on all fingers of a single hand. I have also become a fan of information asymmetry. Like when they all made you believe how studying for a few years is going to turn life into a bed of roses. But that time they all knew that it was not true. But I didn't. Then. Now I do. And the realization is not that bad. I don't want life to be a bed of roses. Not so soon anyway. These days I sometimes like it when things/ feelings are not reciprocated. It reminds me that life seldom turns out the way you had imagined it would. And the more frequent these asymmetries are, the more comfortable I become with the idea.

So. Asymmetries are good. See below. They can be in your favorite clothes too. A combination of long and short. However long and however short.