“Take This Life and Shove It”
The wheel never stops, for as long as we keep running on it – the hamster wheel. We look at it and we wonder, “Why the hell do you hamsters enjoy this wheel so much?” Well, try to look at it from their perspective; maybe they don’t like it so much. Maybe to them, we are the brainless animals running crazily on the wheel. Why wouldn’t they think so? We choose to step onto the wheel, start it, and then struggle to catch up with it.
This is what life has become today – a race on a ceaselessly rolling wheel (thanks to our fellows). Working into the wee hours every other night to get those assignments perfected, devising the lowest calorie and fat-free meal to keep the body trim. Wouldn’t life be a paradise if all these stress causing troubles were removed, the race slowed down and the wheel stopped? How desperate we all are to enter this paradise. Yet, how tightly we cling onto the wheel, reluctant to let go unless our neighbor does. Jumping off the wheel is not hard; jumping off the wheel alone and seeing other people still in the race is. It is the pressure of “catching up”, of “moving ahead” that thrusts us into the race; and it is also this pressure that repels us from it. How ironic. It’s like we know our biggest fear is on the other side of the room, but still, we throw ourselves towards that direction, just to suffer from trepidation.
