It’s not easy to get your ducks all in a row, but once they’re there, they look really good. A nice matched set. Unfortunately, the thing about ducks is that they have minds of their own and aren’t always well-behaved, so sometimes they go off wandering, at which point you’re left with two choices: you can either chase them down, which will take time and energy but you will have your neat row of ducks again, but it also carries with it the risk that the ones who didn’t go off wandering will do so while you’re chasing the ones who did. Or, alternately, you can sit there guarding the ones that didn’t run off, so you still have a row of relatively well-behaved ducks, just not quite as many as you had before. Either of these options are acceptable, so long as you still have ducks and don’t mind continuing to corral them until you can finally somehow get them to a pond. Eventually, you may feel a little bit desperate, but you still have to keep trying.
I came up with this description when I was having a very, very not good day, probably around the beginning of this semester, maybe towards the middle of finals week last semester. Either way, the ducks were decidedly off wandering, and I was wasting way more energy than I would have liked trying to chase them all down.
The fact remains— eventually, the ducks will get to a pond. They might not be the ducks you started out with, but you will have some. And maybe trying to put them all in a row for now is not the best use of time— finding them in the first place is. After all, ducks aren’t really meant to be in rows.
Maxxe Riann 