Friday, January 16, 2009

Tangled Chains (another from the past)

May 16, 2007

Yesterday I spent an hour and a half untangling my necklaces from each other. They got like that over time, and the car ride home made it worse. It took that long, and there were not even that many necklaces. I even felt sick after a while because I was craning my neck looking down for so long. Anyway, that grueling, annoying hour and a half got me thinking a little metaphorically, all because some chains got tangled together from a drive home.

It made me realize how easily things can get tangled up. Each chain represents a problem, hardship, worry, grievance, which you refuse to let out and instead, bottle it up inside. Each problem is only one small hassle, but over time, if you don't separate them and sort them out regularly, they tend to twist into one another. First creating small knots, but as more and more chains enter the mess, the knots grow and the chains become even more entangled in each other. Before you realize what's happening right before your eyes, you have yourself a giant knot of chains tangled and twisted and bunched up so that you can't even see which chain leads to what pendant or count how many there are. It's a disaster zone, really.

It definitely takes much more effort, time and patience to untangle the knot than it did to create it. You will likely struggle with the mess. Before all, you have to realize first off that you have a knot and somehow figure out where to start to fix it, or you can never again wear the necklaces they once were.

Sometimes one chains is so difficult to work with that you need to leave it alone for a while and move on to another. It's even harder when some chains look alike and you can't seem to distinguish between the two.

But with will and perseverance, you eventually find the ends of each chain and work each one through the loops and tangles, until the knot grows smaller, and one by one, the chains separate and show that they each hold a pendant, a purpose, a lesson learned in themselves and the knot as a whole.

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