Balancing a Washing Machine : )

[Ms.Tracy]

So I'm searching through washing machines at Sears.com of course and see these new fangled ones with an "auto-balance suspension system" - who'd ever thunk of THAT???!!!  I'm so accustomed to the shaking of my home from the ever out of whack spin cycle that it could be used as the East Coast earthquake simulator so everyone would know what to do.  The infamous immediate JOLT and voluminous, indescribable thudding.  It'll scare anyone at anytime.  It's the element of surprise. 

Then of course by law, naturally or Murphy's, you are the farthest away from the washing machine as can be of course.  So you have to book it.  Imagine an observer from the outside watching your little feet just lift off the ground and rotate in circles so fast that you are whisked away.  Like in the cartoons. 

You reach your destination, the source of your current anxiety, the epicenter if you will. Just in time for the spin cycle to end.  Giving one last thud like the lowest cord on the piano ending "The Entertainer."  So you take care of the imbalance.  You open the lid; assess the situation finding the culprits that had slipped from their designated sides most likely during the rinse cycle.  Right before the spin.  

So you rearrange the array of hues so if they run or bleed as some say; but that sounds yucky to me... at least the like colors will run on each other.  Having a little bit more confidence that you've finally got it back on track, in balance and ready to start again after that period of soaking, you pull the knob and walk away.  

You just give it up to God so to say.  Throw it to the Bear.  Whatever way you feel better about just admitting it's out of your hands.  Hoping that there is a little bit of Faith left in you in the Universe for you to Believe that the cycle is fixed.  It's no longer out of whack.  Hopefully at least.  Right? 

But again, as you slowly walk that tightrope away there's one last thud that tries to throw you off balance.  Like it's a test.  An aftershock. 

And an aftershock doesn't last.  And it's gentler on you.  And you know how to get through it.  But you also know the boundaries of the quake.  So you know that the most effective clean up is that of rebuilding with an even stronger foundation.  A more efficient washing machine. One that can withstand the hard water damn it!  

Yeah, ironically I've been needing that new washer for a while.  Hopefully I'll be blessed with being able to get a new one soon.  Oooooo, maybe one of those new fangled babies with the auto balance and that superior suspension that keeps the Golden Gate Bridge from blowing in the wind my friend. 

If you think about it, life is that washing machine.  I'm sure Confucius would never have put it this way not knowing that there'd be such technological advancements by now.  Not even something he would want to ponder.  Too complex.  And it is complex.  But in his otherworldly way I'm sure there's a Confucius quote that simply says: Life need balance.  

I like to put it in the new age rhetoric for our wise Confucius.  "Confusions say, Life like washing machine.  Sometimes spin cycle out of whack.  Kathud, Ka-thud.  You must balance it."  

Window shopping at the moment.  Isn't it good to at least have that allusive back up plan? Something to Believe in? 

Back to Sears.com.  Oh yeah, I've gotta go change the laundry!  : )

                                                                       written by:  Tracy Murphy  : )