Cleaning Out the Human Tank

Let’s consider fish. If we want to clean their tanks or move them, we have to take out all their decorations first, then catch them and put them in a small separate tank, drain the water and do what needs to be done before they return to their home.

Let’s consider humans as fish. Let’s say you’re there reading this passage when you look up and through the doors and windows enormous hands were reaching in and pulling furniture out of the room. Assuming there are people around you, they would be running around, screaming, hiding, trying to fight back. You don’t know what these hands want, they’re frightening. Then maybe they pull the entire top of the building off revealing the ugly faces of a creature a thousand times bigger than you and that looks nothing like you. This creature reaches its enormous hands, that look nothing like your hands, inside the building and grabs you and your friends, neighbors, and people you don’t really know but happen to like their color choice in clothing. The monster pulls you up and out of the building, or through the windows or doors. Then the monster drops you into a tiny glass room, miles away. You’re trapped in this tiny room with at least a handful of scared, angry, and confused people. People are snapping at each other, chasing each other, yelling, and trying to hide in the empty corners. Everyone is miserable. And you feel like you’re stuck there for hours. Then, finally, the monster returns and drops you all back into the same room you were in before, the decorations – the desks, lamps, chairs, etc. are all in different places. The paint is a different color. You’re standing in the opposite corner of the room as you were originally; you’ve completely forgotten what you had been doing. And then you go about your daily life, still a bit startled until you decide the monster is gone and things are normal….until it happens again a week later.