My Pen Mates,
I used to kick water on the street just for the sheer fun of living childhood. There is some weird connection that draws a child towards an inch deep water puddle to stomp and splash and spray; it's probably an evolutionary link to when we first crawled out of the primal soup and deep inside, we crave to once more be immersed in our original medium.
With my flip-flops after a rain, I used to excuse my indulgence with a pouty "I'm just washing my dirty feet...!" Of course, playing in the puddle all but guarantees that the rest of me will need a washing after my visit to the puddle. For the little dirt I wished to wash away will develop into clumps between the toes, smudges on the legs and shorts, and dirty water stains from head to toe.
How such a small amount of water cause so much dirtiness is a lesson in life management. Small indulgences serve to satisfy those little longings in life. Knowing that the exposure is short and the enjoyment priceless, one would be wise to embrace those moments when out-of-the-ordinary recharges flagging spirits. Yet the same attribute that makes it necessary endows it with a power to derail the imbalanced psyche. No one can expect to play in the puddle forever lest one turns into a pig or risk getting sick, and certainly socially unfit. Yet such is the wayward path of those unable to set limits or fail to recognize the limits of such indulgence. The habitual drinker, recreational chemical user, even moral cheaters all started with an experiment that has seriously gone awry. But it's not limited to physical and moral frailty; the path of terror and hate all run through the same course. The religious fanatic who cannot interpolate the greater message of faith but rather use it to advance an agenda is the equivalent of a little water causing too much untidiness.
It's one thing to make a connection to the past which causes a smile, and quite another to make the visit permanent. After all, it's not a bath with total immersion leading to whole body cleansing; a puddle will not provide that benefit so those who imagine getting the same result with so little are not only misguided, but perhaps....lost.
Mon
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