I’ve never had to explain how socks work, although I have had a few bosses who made me realize there are some people operating at that level. They will never grab the obvious. Common sense is a foreign language to them. House plants knew more of what was going on than they did or ever will.
If I hadn’t been their employee, I may have viewed them simply as quirks. The one candy in the dish that didn’t get stamped with an M. I may have seen them as an oddity or some tiny blemish just passing through life. But the moment someone else saw fit to put them in charge, things changed.
That caused me to evaluate the entire system. The system is broken and yet people just let it carry on – business as usual. “If we ignore the problem, it will eventually just go away.” Sorry to say, it doesn’t. Suddenly it becomes the norm, and we find ourselves explaining how socks work.
Maybe it is as it should be. There is such a variety of people on the planet, the diversity must be astounding. Maybe there will always be those who find an atom and think, what will happen if I split it? Then there are the ones who can stare for hours at a fish swimming in circles, or look at a tree and think it is dancing, just because the wind is blowing.
Hopefully,
we are light years away from meeting any neighbors. I hate to think we are the ones swimming in
circles.
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