Elastic

Elastic is an amazing thing. As long as it is in good working order all is right with the world. We tend to overlook elastic. Why wouldn’t we? It is there, holding things up, supporting and stretching to meet our ever increasing load. But……..let elastic lose its’ ability to maintain support and suddenly we have a whole new appreciation for it. Just like the lady who suddenly lost her slip in a graduation processional, we are left exposed with our unmentionables puddled around our feet. And we wonder why? What happened to make elastic turn on us, give up and just let go. Perhaps we continued to expose it to more heat than it could stand. Perhaps we were constantly asking it to stretch beyond its endurance. Maybe, we’ve called upon it for too many years without doing any preventative maintenance. Whatever the reason, it snapped! Do you see the analogy here? I hope so. But, just in case, you’ve missed it – ask yourself “are you the elastic or are you the wearer?” Are you desperately trying to maintain support or are you merely calling on your elastic to keep everything from falling down?