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by PAM
I have a few more minutes of 'freedom'... from work! Yep, I've become a prisoner... how sad! But I want to take advantage of this weekend freedom. To escape... that's what I would love to do right now. Too many "grown up's concerns"... that children, pretending to be grown ups, or childish grown ups, ignored in the past. And now, these gnarling concerns tower in front of us, threatening to collapse and crush us all below... and my inside is beginning to melt - from utter exhaustion, trying to will that tower to be still until we got on gear. I know, there is a way to stop the tower of dire concerns from collapsing... and making it vanish in the end, but it's a lot of work. Nah, not afraid of work... I'm just afraid of my own human frailty and mortality... 'cause, while my spirit is resilient, I am 'breakable', ya know.
So, let me escape for a while, with this...
"What in the world is this feeling, catch a breath, and leave me reeling?
It'll get you in the end... tell me, why is it I'm digging your scene?"
..."Digging Your Scene" by The Blow Monkeys. It's appropriate for me right now, 'cause I'm diggin' someone else's scene now... I wish I was somewhere else, doin' something else - something more fun and less stressful, something I know I'd enjoy. I wish I was interviewing Tennis's iron man, Novak Djokovic, about how it felt like to be winning the Aussie Open - three times in a row, and against one of the 'Big Four' in each occasion. Just a couple of hours ago, he dismissed the much improved and much tougher GB's #1, Andy Murray, in a 6(2)-7, 7-6(3), 6-3, 6-2 demolition job in Melbourne. It's his fourth Aussie Open overall, and his sixth Major Title. Wouldn't it be nice to be watching him play his hilarious "Djoker side" the morning after winning in a historic fashion? Ah, I can imagine - sweet! Yep, I'm that shallow... then again, if shallow was happy, then I'd gladly be shallow.
So, thanks to The Blow Monkeys for giving me the carpet, on which to fly away, to escape the 'grown-up world' and dream of living in shallowness. I know they look a bit, uhm, weird... but, ah, don't they sound good? C'mon, admit it - they do! :) A delicious way to escape... to the '80s.
Here's another one from the Blow Monkeys, "It doesn't have to be this way"...
"You've only got yourself to blame for playing the game....
And they just take all hope away, and I just can't see the sense... and my mind's a haze.
But, you know, it doesn't have to be that way!"
... nice, eh? Man, if only these 'childish grown-ups' listen to music more... then there won't be misery in this world of ours! There's just too much wisdom in music... more than enough, actually. Then again, I guess, it depends on what music we listen to.
Alright, that's enough 'shallowness'... back to (boring) reality: sleep (a little) and get back to (lots of) work (again). Man, I'm so looking forward to summer break... and, ahem, retirement! ;)
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