Production Line Lives

Last night as I’m driving home from work, I am only partially paying attention going through many things in my mind, when I pull up behind this pickup truck at a traffic light. As I approach something moving on the trailer hitch catches my eye. At first I’m not sure what this thing wagging back and forth is but as I get closer I see that it is a fish. Yep this fake bass is mounted where the hitch ball would be and it is plugged into the trailer outlet. Whenever the driver steps on the brakes this the tail on this thing wags and the eyes light up. I didn’t think much of it until I was along side of it again at the next light so I snapped this picture with my phone.

This has got me to thinking about the statements we make when we customize our ‘stuff’. Look at what we do to our production line lives to make us appear different. We get our motorcycles painted or add louder pipes. We apply tinting and stickers to our cars. How about the time we spend building a wardrobe or coming up with a new hairstyle. It’s all about making us different from everybody else, yet when we are different we want to be like everyone else. We go out and buy a motorcycle because everyone else has. We buy the latest fashion to fit in.

It’s all about being a part of something bigger than our selves and yet belonging to something bigger than our selves. Something to think about, wouldn’t you agree.