You may be wondering WHAT kind of title for an
article is this! I was just thinking
that sometimes we see things that at first perhaps make very little sense to us
at all! Then if we take the time to think
about it we’ll try to “create” some type of “reason” or “purpose” that helps us
in some way to make sense of what we are seeing. Or perhaps we’re the person who doesn’t try
to make any sense of it at all! I mean,
maybe it’s just a little dog in red shoes!
There is no deeper meaning for it than just what it states.
Why would a person put red shoes on
a little dog any way? And why are the
shoes red? Why didn’t they use blue
shoes or brown shoes? Also, you might
think: Why did they have to get shoes?
It could have been slippers or even cowboy boots. It might have made the whole scene a bit
funnier! And we haven’t considered the
little dog. Was it a little dog so the
site of him in those red shoes would instantly create a chuckle in us? Or maybe he could have been a bigger dog and
then the idea would have created an even more hilarious picture in our mind
that we would have probably thought about all day. I keep insinuating that it was a male dog,
but perhaps the dog was female. That
would have made more sense for the red shoes.
Yet, the brief description doesn’t tell us WHAT kind of dog it was. If we knew that it might have made it a bit
more interesting to create a more fanciful story.
But wait! Why did it have to be a dog in those red
shoes? Maybe more humor could have been
woven within the story if it had been a cat!
Cats are very curious creatures.
Maybe the cat’s curiosity could help explain why she got into shoes in
the first place. Of course, I guess it
could have been any number of different animals in those red shoes. Other animals might have made it funnier to
see! Think of a lion in those shoes. Or
maybe a pig! That would have been a site
to get a picture of. Remember our line
said “red shoes,” but we don’t have to think there were only two of them. There could have been any amount of shoes
covered by that plural form of the word.
We could have had an octopus in red shoes or maybe even a centipede in
red shoes! Now that would have really
been a lot of red shoes.
Can’t you see how we have created
for ourselves a considerable amount of questions and we have considered other
possibilities of “what if” with different scenarios of how things could have
been entirely different with a varying new set of possibilities! But we have by NO means asked ALL the
questions that our simple little line could have created. What if we were given several days or weeks,
perhaps even months, to consider what other possibilities our simple statement
may make available to us? Once we had
exhausted all possibilities within the statement itself we may want to start asking
WHY such a statement was made
from the beginning and WHAT
was the purpose of asking such a statement.
Then we could better understand something about the person who made the
statement. There are many varying aspects that we could then begin to learn
about the person and the circumstances under which the statement was made.
It seems a bit sad that there are
times, and it is more often than not, that people will look at other peoples’
lives and grab hold of a tiny bit of information as ambiguous as a “little dog
in red shoes” and create from that a powerful story of falsehood that, at
times, will practically destroy a persons’ life. Why do we have to be that way?
And then we don’t just have our own
personal thoughts, but we have to let our tongues wag and gossip to others
about what we THINK we know.
Don’t you find it interesting when someone “shares” a gossipy story with
us we feel that we have to “go them one better”: “And did you hear about ____!”
Sometimes the little dog in red
shoes is ALL there is to the story.
Why can’t we just leave it at that?
WHY? --- Because we’re
only human!
QUOTE TO CONSIDER
THOUGHTFUL GEM
"When people say "it's not the money, it's the principle
of the matter" - - - IT's THE MONEY!"
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