Humans Are like Vacuum Cleaners!

My mother calls me a vacuum cleaner killer. I call it justifiable homicide. Shouldn't vacuum cleaners be indestructible and all-inclusive-- not leaving out anything in its path? I can't fathom why they won't suck up and digest fountain pens, marbles, and a rodent or two. My family knows that when they enter the house and there's a burned stench in the air, it only means that mama's been at it again'" hazardously vacuuming yet again.

Don't even get me started on those complicated attachments. I've invented new words I've called them while trying to locate exactly where they fit. (It's apparently a hiding place that the manufacturers like to keep a secret.) But -- ahhh -- what a great feeling when we are successful and find their proper niches.

Actually, there is an intriguing analogy in play here. It seems that our general make up as humans is quite similar to that of a vacuum cleaner. We lead an amazingly similar lifestyle. Let me clarify. Aren't we all guilty of "sucking up" just what we want and spitting out what disinterests us or seems too much to handle? Don't we typically start off many times thinking that a venture is unnecessary and then realize that the great benefit was worth the extra exertion?

We humans are capable of retaining a lot of "life stuff" that resides in our minds. This would be analogous to the way vacuum cleaners store lint. Repression can occur until we realize that it can be unhealthy to do so. Sometimes, we can lose our cool and "blow a belt," if we hold in too much or when the terrain becomes too rough. It is then necessary to change our bags, as our own form of a "life lint" release. The beauty is we get to start over with brand new bags and a new beginning and fresh start. We can then be revitalized and prepared for a brand new day of "sucking up" another day's worth of "lint."

The collection of "life lint" can be the good stuff and is easily digested throughout a day. Or it can be the hard "marbles" of life. We just have to make sure we still keep on sucking up all that life has to offer and embrace the easy pleasures and learn from the hardships. It would be wonderful, if all we had to deal with was a little easily sucked up dirt and dust, here and there. But we were never given a guarantee that our lives would be smooth terrains.

Life is a mystical opaque sphere where there are just as many wonderful occurrences as there are hardships. It's up to us to stay "upright" (sorry, just had to get in one last vacuum cleaner pun.) "We must empty our lint bags and start over with a fresh clean one, and put forth the necessary effort of continually moving forward as we accept the full landscape in our path -- just like a vacuum cleaner.

Don't even get me started on telling you the damage I can do with a dust buster!