Anal, Oh Geez - 12/17/2008

The number of times I write an analogy on this page, you'd think I should rename it.  I actually was going to buy analohgeez.com to upload these thoughts, but who can afford more domains nowadays?  At any rate, Jesus often spoke in parables so as not to confound the masses with the depth of his true teachings, so I too must speak in analogies...because whenever I liken something to something else, I often find myself approaching some sort of profound truth.

Take for instance a video I was making for an update I was going to have today (It will most likely be tomorrow now.)  I was trying to perfect this song from Chrono Trigger when you're facing the big bad inner shell of Lavos at the end of the game.  And after several thousand attempts, I finally mastered a decent sounding likeness of the song...and I proceeded to my computer to upload it to youtube.  But first I went to wash up, and as I was doing so I thought back to the song and remembered how it really sounded.  It was a pretty radical departure from what I THOUGHT the song sounded like as I played a cover of it on my keyboard.  So anyway, I went back to the video and played it. . and lo and behold, I was right.  The actual song and the way I played it were wholly different.  Not night and day, exactly, but diverse enough to warrant a completely new video.  

Now look at what happened to me and compare that to your life.  I was frustrated as shit, trying over and over again to do something in an exact way just to find out that after all my hard work, I wasn't even playing the song the right way.  Maybe the lesson here is that for all of our troubles, our trying to achieve and perfect and make things a certain way. . .we've forgotten that what we're trying to do isn't where we're wanting to get to.  Our imagined goal and our actual desired one vary substantially, and it's up to us to slow down ....step away from our fast-paced lives just for a few moments...and remember what, exactly, it is that we're trying to do with our lives.  Maybe then clarity will clear our head and get us back on track, keeping us from wasting our time working on something that doesn't matter in the first place.