momentum
is that what I mean?
I am terrible at keeping something going. Well, maybe that’s not right. I think maybe there are just too many things in life that I’m responsible for keeping going. That’s terrible syntax. What I mean is, with the momentum inherent to, well, LIFE, there are so many things moving I have a hard time adding a thing. Maybe that’s what I mean?
So maybe momentum isn’t what I mean at all.
I mean that the game of Whack-a-Mole is never ending. And not all the moles are bad they are just a necessary part of life. Like, you know, feeding your kids. Every day they need to eat. That never stops. So all the Home Stuff never stops: laundry, dishes, vacuuming, whatever else people do. And all those moles are non-negotiable.
Non-negotiable moles. Makes me think of little moles in business suits in a conference room. They can’t move forward in their discussion. Poor moles.
OK. Instead of Whack-a-Mole maybe I should use the example of plates spinning. I can’t be the only one who remembers the guy on the variety show who would spin the plates on sticks and have them all spinning and he’d have to run back and forth to keep them all spinning. I feel like everyone should know this particular reference but maybe not everyone watched weird TV in the 80s.
This is a common example, though, right?
So it’s like all the plates are spinning and there’s no room for any more plates. Or if I start a new plate one of the other plates will stop spinning and fall. And shatter. The plates are porcelain in this example. What a mess.
Should I use balls in the air instead? Like a juggler, right? Everyone absolutely knows this reference. When an audience sees a juggler add a ball they’re all like, “Oooh!” and “Ahh!” and “Wow” because they know that was hard.
But juggling seems literally impossible so I don’t want to use that example.
You know what? Just pretend I didn’t write any of this. Because in the writing of this I probably dropped a plate. Oops.
