Can't Find the Pause Button

Today’s remote controls are ironically OUT of control. 

 

A single remote can manage the many functions of not just a single unit but a multiplicity of devices. Some can even additionally control room lighting. With so many functions and complexities, it can be difficult to actually locate the desired button. Thus, my preference is for the simple remote—the one that can easily be kinesthetically memorized. I can pause my show with remote-feel, similar to the hand as a PB&J is to mouth-feel—unmistakably identifiable. This simplicity affords me a more remarkable viewing experience.

 

I cannot seem to locate the pause button for life. Its remote control has apparently become so absurdly and unfortunately overly-complex that Pause has been lost (and maybe forgotten). The multitudinous functions of life crowd and hamper my control of it, and before long, events are coming and going like an Idahoan raincloud.

 

I now long for a simpler control—one that affords me a more remarkable viewing experience. I see Torin growing so quickly, and there are times that life's pause button ought to be pushed:

 

 

 

If nothing else, I’d like to at least take life off Fast Forward.