The Rubix Cube Conundrum!!

I doubt i'm the only person who has experienced the immense rage build up inside them when trying to solve a rubix cube!! But just in case you havent let me set the scene!! Almost a year ago my younger brother, the amazing human being that he is, presented me with a rubix cube as a gift. And i had the usual response "OMG thanks, i'm deffo gonna be able to solve this"....these are the ramblings of a deluded Irish Lady!! Not only did i not solve the rubix cube within 2 minutes as i had thought...this thing followed me everywhere! It haunted me!!!! I must say I'm one of those people that prides themselves on always achieving what i set out to do...however not so much the case! Once my brother jumbled up that bad boy and handed it to me, I waved goodbye to every morsel of free time and rational thinking that I had every previously known. Now to his credit he did provide me with an instructional video.... 

Helpful right?? Am how about no! Now not only do i have an unsolved rubix cube but i cant stop rapping about how to solve one!! Cue sleepless nights and countless wasted lunches followed by an actual dream where i solved the rubix cube!! which i must say is worse than dreaming its Christmas, You can imagine my dismay to wake up and see the unsolved cube staring me in the face!! Now fast forward to last week....while procrastinating and doing anything possible to avoid college work i once again turned to my rubix cube, Like a good boyfriend always at my side in times of need, and began my rubox cube mantra. 

"I swear to God, If you dont get your act together me and you are over!! I know ive said it before but this time i mean it. Ive wasted too much if my time and energy on you and I have absolutely nothing to show for it. YOU'RE MAKING ME LOOK LIKE A FOOL IN FRONT OF ALL MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY!!"*

*Deep Breaths Caroline....Deep Breaths!!

But it seems that my procrastination was not in vain, on this blessed day the stars aligned and the Gods graced me with their patience and strength and low and behold....I SOLVED THE CUBE!! This was of course followed by sheer astonishment on my part, then of course a victory lap of the house proclaiming that I had infact achieved the unachievable, "Maybe I should be president"....no, no time for that now! I have to focus on my rubix cube solving career! 

What I was not prepared for however was the cloud of doubt that surrounded my family when they heard of my achievement! Haters gonna hate, but this was a whole other level! Only in Ireland can an achievement as significant as this be quickly belittled by your family, who don't even stop what they're doing, in the space of 3 minutes!! So to sum up;

• NO, I didn't take the cube apart and put it back together (because the cube didn't have this option...cheap ass version)
• NO, I didn't peel off all the colour stickers and stick them back on again.
• NO, I didn't buy a new cube! If you've read my blog or know me at all, I'm far too poor for that!
• NO, i didn't enter the cube into an online cube solver. I didn't even know such a thing existed until after the event. 
• Finally, NO, I did not realise that i couldn't put this accomplishment on my C.V. 

So here I am now, 24 years old, and elated! There is no moment in life that will ever best this moment for me! Not marriage, not graduating, nothing! My purpose in life has been fulfilled!....or so I would have thought....

Here's what they don't tell you!! 

Dear Rubix Cuble Solvers,NOBODY CARES! 

• Your mother doesn't care, she just wishes you'd put that much time and effort into cleaning your room or studying! 
• your friends don't care...dude you disappeared for a year to hang out with a cube! 
• Your boyfriend/girlfriend doesn't care, well cas duh you don't have one! See the last point!!
• you now have a gaping hole in your life that your rubix cube used to fill. So, what now?

Now my friends, time for me to spit some truths!! Your life as you knew it is over! There's no more alone time, no more waking up in the middle of the night because you cant sleep from thinking about it! no more lunch time rendezvous, no more anything.IT'S OVER! And just like that its fades into memory...maybe now you'll use it as a paperweight, or a novelty decoration in your home, maybe you'll put it in a box and uncover it in years to come, but the fact of the matter is this, you stuck with it kiddo and that's what matters! They dont teach that kind of dedication in school, you cant buy that kind of dedication in any store! It was within you, just waiting for the tiny cube to draw it out and look at me now, Ms Bigshot!! Rubix Cube Solver 2014 Bitches!! And I knwo what some of you are thinking, Why not jumble it up and start again?, Well to those people i say! 

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it."

Peace Out!

xxxxx