The Winter of my Content
Sunday, Mar. 21, 2004 1:14 p.m.
It has been a week of blissful rest and less than 24 hours from now I will have to return to the drudgery of work. Work that pays the bills and keeps me alive, but gnaws at my soul with slow and deliberate certainty. I will have to tap on the positive energy of my rejuvenated self to keep myself going for another 10 weeks.
I have been re-reading my previous entries, and I marvel that I'm still standing and can laugh at things. But I am grateful. My life has really slowed down since the turbulent late '90s. I experience gentle unravelings of the psyche now as opposed to vicious rips and tears,heh heh. So I'm going to spend what's left of my holiday being out, and not holed up in The Best Internet Cafe in the World. ;-)
I will leave you with a poem by Wendy Cope, which captures the joy of living the quiet life of domestic contentment. See you tomorrow.
Being Boring'May you live in interesting times.' Chinese curse
If you ask me 'What's new?', I have nothing to say
Except that the garden is growing.
I had a slight cold but it's better today.
I'm content with the way things are going.
Yes, he is the same as he usually is,
Still eating and sleeping and snoring.
I get on with my work. He gets on with his.
I know this is all very boring.
There was drama enough in my turbulent past:
Tears and passion-I've used up a tankful.
No news is good news, and long may it last,
If nothing much happens, I'm thankful.
A happier cabbage you never did see,
My vegetable spirits are soaring.
If you're after excitement, steer well clear of me.
I want to go on being boring.
I don't go to parties. Well, what are they for,
If you don't need to find a new lover?
You drink and you listen and drink a bit more
And you take the next day to recover.
Someone to stay home with was all my desire
And, now that I've found a safe mooring,
I've just one ambition in life: I aspire
To go on and on being boring.
Older entries
Ramadan - 08 October 2006
Where I Have Been - 03 October 2006
Baby Talk - 10 August 2006
6 Weeks of Separation - 16 July 2006
Unacceptable Rudeness - 21 June 2006