This Is This

It’s a tough act to juggle our relationships and honour our commitments. The best and worse of adulthood is the balancing act we put on all the time.

I’m up there on the wire myself. Right there at the top. Guy with the sheepish grin like it’s under control? It’s all part of the show.

We move people aside, fit in dinner engagements, hold down jobs and hold up promises, defying gravity all the while. And every so often, just to get the heart racing, something comes along that shakes the wire. Death, births, the whisper of a memory or the memory of a whisper.

It reminds me of a New Yorker cartoon of a guy in a talent agent’s office. He’s juggling balls, spinning plates on a stick balanced on his nose and he’s twirling hoops on one gyrating ankle. The agent sits, concerned and nonchalant, stares at his foot on the ground and says: “What can you do with the other leg?”

It’s a funny reminder that you can’t have it all. All’s too much.

The main thing is that, while you have enough, and although you main not be the main attraction, you step the fuck right up.

And enjoy the show.

You have a good weekend.

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