The Problematic Hook

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It was me who suggested having a hook for the boring article. If I knew the trouble I was going to get myself into, I would never have suggested it. So I made the suggestion. She instantly picked it up. Since a hook is supposed to be an attractive bit of information to attract the readers, she presented two of her favorite events in life. Next thing I knew, I realized that she was expecting me to choose one from the two events and glue it to the article as the hook.

“I can’t just attach anything as a hook. I mean hook is supposed to have a natural affinity to your article. I can’t just combine two irrelevant things together and wish one thing to be the hook for the other. It would be very awkward.” I said in my defense and regretted that I had made the suggestion in the first place. Why couldn’t I keep my mouth shut? Whatever I say has the tendency of coming back to bite me, always. No wonder some of my relatives and friends are very silent–they have made the safest choice for their life. Why can’t I learn something from them? Of course they are very dull relatives and friends, but at this moment, their dull life seems to be much more advantageous than mine. 

“You can do it. Use your imagination. If everything fails, you can always add a transition to smooth things over. You can do it.” She said in a persuasive voice. Then she just complimented me in the most expedient way possible and made her exit.

Now I was left with an impossible task of converting an irrelevant non-hook to a convincing hook. What am I going to do? If the world is not going to end before tomorrow afternoon, I am forced to come up with an idea to connect two things together which have no business of being together at all.

Or probably I will just tell her I can’t do it. Will I dare to do that?