Hmmm, is there a lesson to be learned in a family of geese hightailing it home?
Heading home from work a few days ago I saw a rather comical sight. A family of geese were… well, I’m not really sure what the correct term would be. Can geese run?
Scampering seems a bit closer to the mark. Scurrying? No, that’s not it. Scuttling? A bit better, but still not quite right. I think skedaddling is the most apt description. Yes, this family of geese, two adults and a clutch of half-grown goslings, were skedaddling down the sidewalk.
They were clearly in a hurry to get where they were going – presumably back to the pond they call home. Land travel is not the most efficient method of transport for them. But goslings cannot fly until they are two to three months old. They were doing the best they could to keep up.
It was, as I said, quite a comical sight. The Canada Goose Hundred Metre Sprint. A new event for the PanAm games? It would certainly put a Canadian stamp on the games.
But all jokes aside, the sight struck me as rather prophetic. In these helter-skelter times, we are so often on the run. Racing toward another deadline. Dashing for an appointment we just barely have time to make because we had to get one more thing done.
Multi-tasking and priority-managing (aka plate-spinning and knife-juggling.) Forever trying to get just a little bit ahead. But more often than not trying to catch up from yesterday when we did not quite get through the day’s To Do list. Such is the nature of modern life.
The Canada Goose Hundred Metre Sprint – a random act of metaphor to reflect back to us what we look like as we run the never-ending race. It ain’t graceful, folks. Life is short. Time is precious. Long past time we slow down, let a plate or two fall and break if it must, and stop to smell the roses while they are in bloom.
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