Have you ever seen someone frantically working to get something accomplished but, in their effort to work, you look on in amazement and can’t help thinking to yourself, “They look like they’re just spinning their wheels.” I know I’ve noticed that from time to time. I have to admit, I’ve even done it myself. Our efforts to accomplish what we think is the task at hand is admirable, even though it is sometimes misguided. The truly important gets pushed aside sometimes for the only seemingly important.
You’ve probably heard the metaphor from time to time: ‘rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic’. It’s the classic metaphor for useless pursuits. What it really means is that your endeavor is not worth the effort you’re putting into it. To paraphrase the statement: ‘Why are you putting so much effort into something that isn’t going to make any difference?’ The point is the ship is going down and you need to do something that’s really going to help the people on the ship. While rearranging the deck chairs was not something people actually did in this instance, it does provide a valuable bit of visual imagery about the absurdity of the idea. Of course, the most prudent course of action would be to man and load the lifeboats. Which, thankfully, many people did.
However, on the other hand, you had the eight-member band which kept playing throughout all the mayhem on the imminently sinking ship. The story is told of how after it was announced that the ship was sinking that the band kept playing during the effort to abandon ship. Starting in the First Class lounge, they later moved out onto the boat deck and continued playing there. All this, in an effort to keep the passengers calm. While this sounds like a worthy goal, I have my doubts as to whether it was truly effective. Regardless, the statement, ‘…and the band played on’, has become something of its own metaphor for doing nothing in the face of tragedy.
You also don’t have to worry about false starts because the movies work first time every time. samples of generic viagra Before, the tools that viagra online cure erectile dysfunction are safe and effective. Below are some useful herbs that can help cialis low price amerikabulteni.com men who have impotence to get and keep an erection for a longer period of time as the ejection that a person sports is hard and lasts longer in bed, which are mandatory to have a satisfactory coital experience in bed, so that both the partners can easily enjoy their coital bliss for longer period of time. It works by increasing tadalafil from india blood to the penis area.
What a dichotomy of responses to the same event, yet producing wholly the same result. One, so worried that their actions—a result of their panic—in doing something, act out of fear thinking that it was better than doing nothing at all; the other, doing virtually nothing of use, but something you would spend a Saturday evening doing in relaxation, make an effort to lull people to sleep like everything was OK. Sometimes absurdity is the best illustrator.
Those things we do on a daily basis—it’s sometimes good to take an inventory of whether we are working towards a worthy goal. We can, unwittingly, be like the one ‘rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic’ until we stop to think about it. Conversely, we can also be like the band members acting like nothing’s wrong. To avoid those two responses, I need to ask myself, “What’s really important here, and what’s going to matter for my future and for those around me?”