Two Grand Analogies

 The first: it strikes me that making a plan for what to do during the week is a lot like going to a buffet table.  One takes his time, looks over the possibilities, puts on his plate that which he thinks he'd like, then walks away to enjoy it.  While away, there are snack tables set up around the room; a nibble here and a nibble there but always attending to the plate in hand.

Then, if all goes well, he sits back in a comfortable chair and enjoys the feeling that his hunger has been satisfied; not only from the food on the buffet table but the little snacks as well.  Then a while later, he gets hungry again.

The important food, the food that will see to his well-being, came from the buffet table; the snacks provided some interesting diversity.  The time spent in the dining room was well spent, that is important.

What is eaten in the here and now makes no discernible change in his appearance but, over time, too much of this or that will show its effect.  If properly nourished, one will continue a slim and healthy life and vice-versa.

The analogy is a good one.

The second: there are notebooks full of written thoughts probably never to be read.  These writings, and probably this blog, are like photographs taken during the course of a lifetime.  Some are large vista-views, some are composed and posed, some are candid shots that were spontaneous.  All of them are kept, at least for a while, in files or albums probably never to be viewed.

 Furthermore, the notebooks are in cursive which is something people younger than fourteen years cannot read without difficulty.  The more time that elapses the greater the possibility that no one, except scholars, will be able to understand the script.  Then there's the added complication that age has diminished my handwriting to a scrawl that is even more difficult to interpret, sometimes even by me who wrote it.

Like the old photos, no one recognizes the scene or the people.  So it goes; we look at our photos and read our notes for our own enjoyment and, perhaps that of others as yet unknown. 

The analogy is also a good one.