My bagel is a Schnauzer…
April 14, 2009 – 9:43 amA funny thing happened to me the other day. I was knee deep in my usual heavy-headed thinking, sitting at the computer waxing over the economy. As I took a bite out of my bagel I noticed something strange. My bagel looked oddly similar to a Schnauzer. So much so, that I had to shoot a picture just to prove it to you.
Schnauzer Bagel
Of course, the occurrence made me think even more. Why is it that humans want to relate everything to everything else? Why is it that we seek meaning in the meaningless? What is our compulsion to make sense of things? After all, sometimes “a cigar is just a cigar.” Used to be, that if it came from above, then it was truth. No other thought was required. Then science came along and sought answers to unanswerable questions. Before long, we adopted the habit of thinking our way through things. But this morning I realized that all the thinking in the world only got us where we are.
Life requires more than thinking, more than feeling or even believing. Sure it asks for all of the above and yet still remains a mystery. Who knows where we’ll go from here. But one thing is certain, no one has the answer. Perhaps when we admit this, we begin to grasp the real truth. That we are not really meant to know after all, simply to be and to try and to love. For those are the things we have within our power, nothing more.
6 Responses to “My bagel is a Schnauzer…”
Where was the Philadelphia cream cheese?
By John Sikes on Apr 14, 2009
Well, how did the story end? Did you eat the poor thing? I’m telling PETA!
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By Beth Smoak on Apr 14, 2009
Actually I’m telling PETB (Bagels!)
By Beth Smoak on Apr 14, 2009
To all my friends who asked:
1. I did eat the rest of the bagel.
2. I did not change it from bagel to beagle.
3. There was no cream chese. I’m vegan. Cheese is cheating.
4. Yeah, I know. !@#$!@# Happens, but so does inspiration…
By Trish on Apr 14, 2009
I would have said, “sell it on ebay”……….too late now.
By Mary on Apr 14, 2009
I’m not so sure that’s a schnauzer. Looks more like a Scotty to me.
By Leah on Apr 15, 2009