knowledge in the kitchen

In order to fully understand this post, you must know what a salad spinner is. If you don't, well, I'll tell you the thing my mother always heard from her father: look it up. (I've never heard that myself, I'm just so smart.) I'm going to go out on a whim and create a new metaphor: life is like a salad spinner. Here's why: You start out as a wet lettuce leaf. Sounds gross, but hey! you like it that way. So here you are, a wet leaf. Suddenly, you're in the kitchen, on the counter, and your faced with a decision. You can either be put into a bag in your present beautifully wet state, or you can be thrown into a very shiny looking mechanism that kind of fills you with fear it's so beautiful. Off a whim, without thinking, and under pressure to make the decision, you decide on the strange device. Your in, your cozy, you like, no LOVE, your decision.... and then the lid of this strange device is put on, and suddenly, you're spinning and spinning and spinning and spinning.... .... and spinning and spinning. .... and spinning and spinning. You get the point. There's a lot of spinning. You can see now you are a very dizzy salad leaf. You feel sick to your little leafy stomach. You regretted, hated your decision. Despised it even. Okay, you downright loathed it. Just as you're about to leak out a few leafy tears, you become aware of yourself. You are dry. You are warm. You feel great! Better than EVER before. So was the bumpy ride worth this wonderful feeling? Your leafy persona thinks so! You love your life now, and it was all completely worth it. Catch my drift? Of course, this example does not pertain to every case. But it has to me. I went out on a limb to get a job, when already my life was extremely busy. It was a few bumpy months there, trying to see if I actually enjoyed my busy lifestyle. But now I have decided that I like my life a lot better that before. So go out on a limb. Take a chance. Unless you like being soggy, of course.