a thief named time

Watched an episode of "It Takes A Thief" last night.

The premise of this show is that a TV crew shows up at your front door and offers to film your house getting robbed. It airs on Discovery and they have a couple of reformed burglars for the work.

The house gets cased from the outside before they knock on the door. The first guy talks the owners into doing the show, they do a walk through, the remote cameras are set up, the owners leave the house as they normally would and get into a van to watch what happens next.

After receiving the go ahead signal the second guy breaks into the house, completely ransacks the place looking for valuables, finds most of the good stuff and is gone in 10 minutes or less.

It's an enlightening show, especially for the owners of the house.

It also serves as a metaphor for many of our lives. A thief, time, takes what was our most valuable possesion in our youth, our good health. It seems like it didn't take very long to do it either.

And why would we ever allow our good health to not be our most valuable possession?