I had a disaster in the shed the other day in finding white ants had eaten out most of the roof rafters.  It was a long time ago and I am glad I never went wandering around on the shed roof because I would have ended on the shed floor.  I had to remove all my ‘stuff’ from the shed to pull down the ceiling.  In packing stuff up, I was heavily into work avoidance and spending (read wasting) time on the trivial to avoid the main tasks.  I went to a couple of boxes that I had which contained all the cables you receive with a new TV, DVD, Stereo etc etc.

I had a lot of cables.

I had a lot of cables that were all the same.

I had a lot of cables I didn’t need.  Everything was already connected and working fine.

I thought to myself, I have too may cables.  All the same.  All of no use.  So, I unpacked the cables.  Folded them all nicely, with each individual cable held neatly in its little circle with a cable tie.  I had cable ties just in case I every needed them, and today was that day.  I was proud of myself for having the cable ties to tie the cables that I didn’t need.  I packed them all neatly and put them back in the boxes they came out of, and put them back to were they are stored; in case I need them.

I got to thinking about having to many cables.  I got to thinking about throwing them away.

And I didn’t.  I couldn’t.  I know I didn’t need them, I didn’t even really want them.

And I got to thinking are all these cables an analogy for something in my life.

And I realised.  I just had too many cables and I should get on with fixing the roof.