Surely not me!

I love the comic strip non sequitur. I don't know if it's because of the witty rebelious little girl whom I'd fancy as my own if i were to have a daughter or if it's the clever writing and impressive drawing that catches my eye.

Sometimes in a few panels it just sums it all up. I suppose the older you get the more and more elephants you pickup. pretty soon you have a flippin' herd stampeding through your "livingroom".

I'm wondering at what point does it become too much. You figure one elephant is hard enough to dance around but what happens if you have multiples? Do you start to seek thearpy? Or do you try and bury it hoping you'd forget it eventually? In time does it become less obvious?...what's that smell!

I suppose the elephant in this cartoon can also be a facade. The larger your facade becomes the more and more strain it will cause for you to support it. Eventually it will squash you. And then what? Does one resume trying to maintain it? Or are all pretenses dropped at that point and you begin anew adopting a less daunting and perhaps a "less" impressive facade?... But will it be you... Or facade number 2 version 1?

I don't know. I've never had much uses for a facade (or am I in denial...) and I've always considered myself a take it or shove it up yours type of guy.

But currently I'm dealing with my own elephant. It just sits there. I have a feeling that until I screw up the courage to confront it, it will continue to dump all over my living room.

I don't want it to forget about it because it will leave the door open for it to return. I just want to look it in the eye and work to remove it... Because how else is one suppose to grow in life developmentally? I guess the same can again be said about a facade that gets to unwieldy. Or with any problem. face it and move on. I'm told if it doesn't kill you it'll make you stronger.

Funny, I wonder how many pink elephants were present across the land as we all celebrated Thanksgiving with our families... And how long have they been present? C'mon, like you don't have a pink elephant?... Okay... If you say so, but I could swear I smelt elephant dung earlier...

I hope you enjoyed the comic.

Lenard J. Akkar