Headless does some shots
Date 11/18/1999 12:00 AM | Topic: OpinionMost of you probably don't know my pet lizard Debbie, who lives a blissful life in my dorm room
. In her aquarium, she contentedly thinks she is master of the world. But I know otherwise.
At Roscoe's, they pour you shots. In Debbie's world, she calls the shots. On the other side of the glass, I call them. She gets lights out when I do, gets water when I think of it, and crickets when I have time.
As students, most days we're content enough to sun ourselves on the sticks, lick up a little water, and snag a cricketburger in Marty's. To us, the glass doesn't seem to exist.
Debbie has a neat little trick. She can leap from her perch on a stick to the glass of her cage, sticking to the side like a cereal box toy. From there, she checks out the place and converses with the dust bunnies rapidly multiplying in my bedroom.
The problem with this maneuver is that it works about one time in ten. A leap, and SMACK! Lizard says an intimate hello to the glass and ricochets like a cueball. After tumbling across the gravel she gets up, looking like a post-pledge night Theta Chi. Something, which never before mattered in her two cubic foot world, has suddenly stopped her cold.
Think about the glass in your world. Where does your world end right now? I'm not talking about the proverbial Luther bubblesphere. I'm talking about your potential glass. Where the shots are called.
The shots.
It's all about who calls the shots. Is it you? If it is, are you where you want to be? If it's not, does it matter? If you are master only within your own world, who feeds you crickets? Who gives you water? Who shuts out the lights when it's bedtime?
Leap, my child. Leap to break the glass of the world that contains you and your mind and find a new home, a new place, a new definition for this thing called life. In the great scheme of things, you only get one shot. ONE.
So, my little lizards, leap with all your might, but watch out for the glass.
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