Alice Thinking of New Rules By Bea Augustine Alice wanted things to be just her way and it turned up to be all

messed up, until she accidentally found out that the outcome was just as acceptable. Yes, we could be just following instructions, daily and hourly and, also, we could be religiously minding some written or unwritten rules, until we just come to realise that breaking rules and making mistakes is a way to learn something new or explore into the immense pool of opportunities that are there stored for each one of us. Really, I will not describe how new inventions get materialised or even, in the first place, bumped into. New models and new methods bump nowadays and we are under the constant fire of demands to become more and more proactive and intuitive. So, Alice was about just fine in her efforts to finish her studies in Comparative Linguistics and her agenda was to join forces with some of her fellow-students and to work on a project that would eventually (with an to call it certain degree of probability) allow her to be included on the team of the masters in the area, at the University of Foreign Languages in Atheria. Their project was about making sure that all ancient languages had their interconnections mapped to current languages, with the presupposition that the activity was deemed possible. There were around three hundred and fifty old languages and only four current ones, so the mapping was not an easy chore. Then, they had to explore tons of meanings, in order to prepare a complete database of all the topics that inhabited the old cultures and had long been considered as obsoleteness. Alice was all right with that, she and her fellows knew it would be at least two years` work in order to come up with a modern computerised solution about their task and they were already devoting the most of their time on the project, especially after they had been able to win a grant from the University that would help them sustain themselves while working on this (in ancient times certainly this would be named ground-breaking; nowadays, any student was aiming at breaking fresh ground). So, Alice was entering into that particular day, when she realised mistakes were sometimes good and that, again sometimes, we could just never be sure what solution we might encounter - even when the know-it-all people on the supporting side of societies communicational services just said there were no options, taking into consideration the mistake at hand. Yes, Alice had made a mistake and it appeared not mendable, however, then, all of a sudden, her preliminary ideas came up to be still holding true and, indeed, there was a solution, which only the support staff did not know, possibly because he was driven by rules. Then, while sipping at her coffee, Alice realised that they probably needed a new set of rules, or a variety of solution methods, that would be advantageous in lots of everyday situations and, of course, on their project. She summoned up all her energy to concentrate on anything besides the taste of the black coffee in the cup and, then, she remembered to write that down (along with her every new idea), in order to be able at the end of the day to sit and reflect upon any of the ideas that she had had so far. It was not a matter of forty per cent of all ideas being realisable or lucrative, it was just a method of having it all organised and properly filed, so that each one of these ideas could be turned into something viable or could lead to a new idea further ahead in time.