Question: Can scale be defined if there are no physical attributes to measure? How big is God? How big is love? How big is a solution? How big is the problem? Some things are not quantifiable with scientific measurement, as we've adequately covered before.
It may surprise you, then, that the answer is yes. You define the scale of something with zero mass, metaphorically, with Jazz Hands. You probably saw that coming.
Today I witnessed a coworker deploy unintended, subconscious Jazz Hands as he vividly expressed the enormity of a work related conundrum, one without physical size or weight. Although the issue is quite an immense obstacle, it is of the invisible variety.
I noticed the hand jazzing motion and immediately called him out, pointing at him saying loudly like a six-year-old child, "You did Jazz Hands! You did Jazz Hands!" He outright refused to believe he deployed Jazz Hands and a dispute ensued. I mimicked his hand motions to describe his actions, and he then mirrored my hand motions saying "I did not do this." Note the scathing emphasis he placed on the word 'this.'
"Yes, you did do this!" I emphatically retorted, all while hand jazzing back.
There we were, face to face, deploying Jazz Hands at one another. It was as if we were dancing and it was awkward and beautiful all at once, like watching mating Sandhill Cranes in the springtime. Exactly the same but instead of big awkward birds in a field near a stream, we are big awkward men dressed in Friday Business Casual in an office near a conference table.
The moment was larger than life, which is a metaphor used to describe the scale of something completely unseeable and subsequently unquantifiable. The both of us, at the exact same moment in time, realized the strange nature of our argument and abruptly ceased. Without another word, we turned away and walked to our respective work stations.
The awkwardness of today's Jazz Hands persist. Day one-hundred and nine complete.
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