The Thing About Things

Here’s the thing about things. Things are among the most misunderstood of all things. The thing to remember is, they do not want you to merely collect them like things. They want you to cherish them like they are the most precious thing in existence. Otherwise, things become objectified …just meaningless things to collect more and more of. And this suggests there is something more valuable than things. Which of course there is. That’s the thing! The thing of it is though, even though I may know what the thing is, I still am tempted by other things. I’m pretty sure this is something like the thing Phil and Don were thinking about when they sang “pretty little thing Claudette”. Likewise, precisely Stan's and Jack's ruminations, no doubt, when they created the monstrous Thing. The thing I really want to marvel about though is that, all things considered, most things are beyond our control. And perhaps none of this means a thing. I do know one thing for sure …the thing that can be named is never really the thing.