I know how Elmer Fudd felt during open season

I was watching How I Met Your Mother the other day, and they brought up something that I found very interesting. It's strange because I don't usually look for any deep meanings in a sitcoms. Anyway the premise of the show was around this picture...





I have seen this picture before, it's a common optical illusion. It raised an interesting point. you could look at this picture all day for months and think it's a rabbit... but one day you look at it an you see a duck. They went into an argument on which was good and which was bad, they concluded that rabbit was bad. They went on to talk about the things in their lives that are "rabbits", the people they were chasing after that weren't right for them. It got me thinking

This idea of "chasing rabbits". It's a funny coincidence that this episode came on around the same time the new Alice in Wonderland came out. which mad me wonder about all the so-called "rabbits" we all chase. I mean if the "rabbits" are the things that aren't desirable to us, then why chase them. The whole idea seems absurd. Sometimes we can't help it. Speaking for myself I tend to get sucked into this that aren't always the best for me. Also I have a tendency to want things I can't have and that also keeps me interested in whatever I am chasing. Ideally it's not the best thing for me if I want to be happy, but I don't think that it's always harmful. I mean going after something gives you motivation. And as long as you know that what you're going after might be a waste of time, you should end the chase, any time after that is wasted.


This doesn't mean I don't have "ducks" I'm after. I can think of the one major duck I've been in pursuit of. How do we know what a duck is? Well, to me.... a duck is the thing that is the best for us. The person that makes us happy. The person that we enjoy being around, and when we're around them we're happy. The duck will do things to keep us happy. the duck is what is always on your mind, and never leaves it. It's what you don't want to stop thinking about. The duck is what you connect with and complements you. You never get tired of duck. Duck is what's always there for you when things get overwhelming and you need it there. Duck is even there when you don't need it, because it just wants to spend time with you.

The thing is no one is really sure what they are dealing with at first. Is the person a duck or a rabbit? I mean odds are it's gonna take a while to figure that out, so there is always risk of time being wasted, but I think that is only true when dealing with a rabbit. When you find the duck all that time before just makes it all worth while. What I try to do, as we all should, is use the talents and good things about us as "duck feed" so we can find that duck we are looking for in this giant pond we call a world. To "get our ducks in a row" so to speak.