I Flunked Out of Clown College 🤡
Not Because of the Oversized Shoes, But Because of the Juggling
Everyone knows that to make it as a circus clown… 🤡
You need to be a skilled juggler.
I was drummed out of the clown corps on day 1 of Clown U.
I was so disappointed.
To add insult to injury, the faculty lined the halls and beat their drums with honking drumsticks as I shamefully skulked out of the big tent in disgrace.
Even the elephants looked at me disapprovingly. 🐘
…….OK, confession time.
I never attended clown college.
But I did take a juggling class for Physical Education units in college.🤭
During an actual juggling class, the instructor reminded us:
“Imagine you’re juggling porcupines. Porcupines, people!”
The instructor, an actual former circus clown, said that to us verbatim.
We all must’ve had the same “WTF?” expression on our faces because he immediately followed it up with an explanation.
“Your natural tendency is to focus on all the porcupines at once, but the secret is to only focus on one porcupine.”
Yeah, I know.
It still doesn’t make any sense even now, even all these years later.
I mean, who in their right mind would juggle porcupines?
And yet…
The Zen practitioner within me perked up 🤔
We tend to go through our days juggling porcupines.
Of course, being sophisticated modern individuals, we call it multitasking.
But we intuitively know that multitasking, like juggling porcupines, is a myth.
It’s a myth because we can’t truly do more than one thing at a time and do them both with the same dedication and thoroughness that we would do if we performed each alone.
It also explains where I’ve been recently…
No, I haven’t attended a multitasking retreat or an extended meditation sesshin… nor have I auditioned for the circus…again. 😜
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