Monday, November 20, 2006

the gears keep slippin'

it's analogy time, boys and girls! it's been a while, but today is actually a good day, so i figured it'd also be a good day to blog since it's not guaranteed to last and i'll need to remember this.

it seems the gears are starting to engage.
they've been slippin' lately.

the gears i speak of are the ones full of facts that you know are true...but are unable to make an impact because they are facts that have brought about unwanted change. they're the kind of facts that would make more sense if you were able to remove yourself completely from a situation and look at it from all possible angles.

the facts have been spinnin' in my head for weeks.
they just haven't engaged.

today it feels like they have, at the very least, brushed against one another and caused a minute shift in positioning. looking back, the facts themselves have never changed....they were there from the beginning. and they've been staring us in the face for months. yet we chose to keep them from engaging. and the longer we held them at bay, the more strain they were under...until a series of (un)fortunate events brought about the needed release of the disengager.

and the clock began ticking again.
and time hit home.

there's that funny word again. time. ha. i smile.

4 comments:

AmanDan said...

Matt you confuse me. for a second there i thought you were actually engaged! Stop freaking me out like that. but i still don't understand....you need to stop using analogies and just start writing what you mean.

Matthew Kok said...

ha. far from it, my friend. ....although i did write that word a lot in there. hm. what else do gears do besides engage? aren't analogies great though? man. i love 'em! =)

Jonathan said...

Good to see the gears are spinning. 'Cause they sure weren't Saturday morning when I stopped by and you were still asleep. At 11:00 AM.

;)

BTW, gears 'mesh'. Spaceship engines 'engage'. You trekkie you. :P

jonvon said...

wow, quite enigmatic there. I have to agree with with amanda. Lay it to us straight.