“Just tell yourself, Duckie, you’re real quite lucky.”
Yesterday I decided I was perfectly content. At the time I was sitting in my AC cooled house watching a really, really bad science fiction movie called Sharktopus, hunting on-line for a DVD of The Thing with Two Heads and eating muhammara and bread. All of a sudden I had a revelation. I didn’t need a thing.
When I was growing up, people asked me what I wanted to be, but they never asked me how I wanted to feel. If you think about it, that seems a really important question. How did I want to greet every day of my life? Did I want to bemoan my fate or smile at the luck of having another day. I suppose I could have said that whatever I chose to do had to make me happy, but no little kid would think that in a million years. Besides, I was too busy thinking about the next day or the coming weekend, about as far ahead as I could handle. I knew I wanted to travel suffering as I was from Barrett syndrome, but I had no idea where. Somewhere, anywhere was okay with me. I didn’t have a plan. Traveling for the sake of traveling just hung around my head and never left.
In the long run, I have always been thankful for the trip of my life. It has been far more than I could ever have imagined. I’d tell ten-year old me to enjoy what’s coming. I’d also tell the young me not to worry. Bad times don’t last. Good memories do.
No question about it: I am content, and I greet every day with a grin.
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Tags: contentment, enjoying life, Sharktopus, The Thing with Two Heads, travel, what do you want to be
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July 28, 2014 at 1:57 pm
I just looked at the trailer on Sharktopus and it was really bad in a very wonderful way 🙂 🙂 🙂 I wish we had movies like that on tv here too, I wouldn’t hesitate to get that channel 🙂
We never got that thunder or the rain so it has just been a hot, humid rather awful day. Well the morning was nice though. Tomorrow will be hot and sunny but it will turn towards cooler on Wednesday they say but so far they haven’t been close in their predictions so I’ll believe it when it happens 🙂
Have a great day!
Christer.
July 28, 2014 at 3:36 pm
Christer,
That was the strangest creature with all those legs. I have no idea how they come up with these week after week. All of them are pretty funny.
We also did not get rain though we did have some thunder. It is humid but not as bad as yesterday. Our weather will be the same all week.
Enjoy the day!!
July 28, 2014 at 2:19 pm
Hi Kat,
Yesterday was a crazy day and very tiring. The dogs are still napping it off. They had a moment of activity at breakfast and another one about an hour ago but essentially they are pretty comatose. Me, too.
We had wild weather this morning. Tornado and flood warnings came screaming over my phone a few of times. The thunder storms came through and the rains came pouring down. Then it was all over and the sun came out. Now it looks like it might rain again.
I’m not sure what I would tell my younger self. Maybe risk a little more although that might have put me well over the safe edge. 🙂 But I regret nothing, as the saying goes. The journey has been fun.
Enjoy the day.
July 28, 2014 at 3:49 pm
Hi Caryn,
I think the heat doesn’t help you or the dogs. I find myself going out on the deck or just sitting on the couch. Gracie doesn’t stay out long.
There was a tornado in Revere. That is amazing to me. Weather has gone crazy. No rain here yet just threats of rain.
I regret nothing either as I think i have had a great life so far and can’t hardly wait for the rest to unfold.
Enjoy the evening!
July 28, 2014 at 2:21 pm
the thing with two heads…a classic. i think mr milland went to his grave apologizing for that movie. i , of course. loved it.
July 28, 2014 at 3:50 pm
greg,
He should have gone to this grave regretting that movie, but I, like you, love it. The combination of the two stars is too funny.
July 29, 2014 at 11:49 pm
Content and grinning? Well, isn’t that nice! So many (too many) people face life angry, bitter and unhappy. Avoid them where you can!
Did I miss “Sharknado II”??
July 30, 2014 at 10:25 am
Jay,
I had such a good day, and nothing I did was extraordinary.
No, Sharknado is on tonight. The paper said it was better than the first. Get you chain saw ready!!
July 31, 2014 at 12:57 am
Sharknado 2 should join the two-headed man or Godzilla in your video library. So bad it was good!
July 31, 2014 at 11:06 am
Jay,
Who knew a shark swallowed people whole and had room for two. How lucky our hero was being swallowed by the same shark who swallowed the woman much earlier. I love the rev them up to fight scene. The end result was was like in Frankenstein with the villages carrying the torches and any weapon they could get their hands on.
The something on the wing scene was straight from William Shatner’s character in The Twilight Scene. Will Wheaton lasted the shortest time for any cameo. I had to love the Today show!
I got quite a chuckle and liked the movie. It was more than happy to make fun of itself.