The top of my head blew off Monday night. All because of a technical issue with my DVR…which I hate…but that’s a rant for another day. Bottom line, something I had looked forward to, a simple pleasure, had been ruined by something becoming unnecessarily complicated.
I fixed the problem on Tuesday (and for a complete description of how I did it, see my blog for my rant) but the sour taste remained for a while.
So I found another simple pleasure. Music. I turned on my iTunes and cranked up my new favorite song, We Are Okay, by Joshua Radin. It’s on his new album, Simple Times, and it seemed just right to listen to an album called Simple Times when I was in search of simple pleasure.
Nothing complicated, nothing dramatic, just something feel-good, feel-good. You know what I mean? So when Joshua sang “we are okay, we are all right” — well, I can go with that. I can be okay, I can get into being all right. I can let go of that frustration and blah feeling, and just get into the fact it’s a brand new day and for me, a brand new year and season of renewal.
I can face the new year with optimism, not antagonism. I can take a deep breath. I can dance. I can eat something good, I can smell a flower, I can write a story. A good story. I can look around and appreciate everything in my life and understand if the worst that ever happens to me is that I can’t get a stupid remote control to work my tv, then I’m a lucky woman.
I can be reminded, as Josh says in his song One of Those Days — “it’s just one of those days.” And they pass, those days. Bad times pass, and we are okay.
That can apply to a lot more than a broken remote control.
M
October 8th, 2008 at 6:39 am
Amen, Megan.:
Denise A. Agnew
October 8th, 2008 at 6:56 am
How True Megan…I’m gonna try real hard to not sweat the small stuff…
If I can
October 8th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
I like it
My current policy is trying to ignore things
October 9th, 2008 at 4:43 am
Simple pleasures:
1. Reading
2. My wonderfully smushy pillow that smooshes perfectly around my head.
October 9th, 2008 at 6:09 am
LOL Zoe….I am in love with my soft sheet set I got from Costco last year…it’s like sliding into a piece of heaven! I never want to get out of bed though
October 9th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
@limecello:
that can work, too…
October 9th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
@Zoe Winters: I love pillows like that.
October 9th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
hehe Juliana, yes that is the primary problem. When I was a kid, I was such a fan of these smooshy pillows, I would take my pillow with me to breakfast and lay against the table on it until my breakfast was ready. Also, at that time I had an old bed, where my body had actually made an indentation where I slept so the entire bed smooshed. It was wonderful. And it was a bitch getting me up in the mornings.
hehehe Megan, I’m glad it isn’t just me.