Thursday, May 18, 2006

a mattress called Fred


No this is no keyword or something, I am really talking about a mattress. One of my colleagues told about a book today in which they harvest mattresses. This matresses seem to be alive and they all have the same name - Fred.
So, if you kill some of them and then take them with you, the other mattresses don't know who's missing, because if they ask if Fred is still here, there is allways someone who says - YES, I'M HERE.
Why do i tell you that? Because it perfectly describes a problem of a good friend of mine, which I considered not to be as serious as it seems to me now.
I thought there would be an easy solvetion for this situation, but in fact it's like searching for the missing mattress by it's name.
Problems are solved by asking for reasons - I think - but if I ask for the reason, as if I would ask if Fred isn't here anymore, I can't get a usefull answer. I think I should read the book - or ask my colleague who read it - how the matresses got out of this trouble. Allthough I think they never did. I know, if I think in a less crazy way, the easiest way to solve this would be to give all of them different names, but Fred was killed allready so this would just prevent to get in such a situation again and it wouldn't solve the current problem.
So what can I do to help my friend. I think she isn't able to solve the problem on her own anymore, because it got to complex to solve it as an involved person. I am kind of an outstanding watcher of this missery. Maybe I can do something that helps. But how can I solve a problem when it's reason is unknown?
It is so confusing and so far a way from logical thinking. Humans are so disturbed, but to be in balance with this world I have to clean this mess up. I think that's my job. So I keep on searching for Fred.

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