Rock on

I’d been looking for a t-shirt with a slogan “Rock On” for a couple of months now but couldn’t find any. Yesterday, I was at the Mall of the Emirates and saw this little store in the middle of the aisle selling t-shirts with slogans in them. I asked the saleslady if she has one with a “Rock On” design. She said no but she could print anything I wanted. I chose a beige-colored t-shirt but hesitated to have “Rock On” printed. I went out to smoke and think of what to print in the t-shirt.

For some reason, I thought of

“And in the end,
the love you take
is equal to
the love you make.”

and had it printed. It’s the complete lyrics of the Beatles’ song The End from the Abbey Road album. The End is the last in a medley of short songs which begins with Golden Slumbers. It follows the jam where all three of the band’s guitarists play licks one after the other for 3 rounds.

I still don’t know why I chose the quote. Maybe because it sounds like a re-statement of Newton’s Law of Reciprocal Actions, which every engineer knows by heart. Well, anyway, keep on rocking.