So my grandmother kinda implied today that “blogging is for someone who has no life.” Now she said some nicer things before and after that paired with a lifetime of supporting all my dreams so, “Don’t Cry for me Argentina” (excuse my song break), however what I found even more profound about her assertion was the brazen boldness, hard earned headiness and an authenticity that simply couldn’t be denied. I guess for most of us everything we do is moving toward or away from the life we want to lead. Then you throw in life’s detours and getting that life can seem as unattainable as having your name called at the DMV. To be able to walk through the world with a valiant and intrepid approach should be applauded. Bare-naked candor is what I call that and I was thinking about said nakedness when I decided to make a pit stop at a local Jack in the Box. What better way to ponder getting a life than over the finance saving creation of two tacos for a mere 99 cents. As I scrounged around in my car for exact change (there is a sense of satisfaction when you can literally buy lunch without even breaking a dollar), I noticed the passenger in the car before me getting out and heading toward the trunk. Now this vehicle is already at the front of the line, but the sense of urgency they conveyed while scouring through their treasure chest led me to muster some patience. After two trips back inside the car to ask the driver a question and a final trip to the trunk while the rest of us in the drive through sighed heavily, she finally found what she had been looking for. In broad daylight, bare-naked candor, she pulled out a bottle of Hennessey and proceeded to pour the contents into an empty water bottle. I’ll save you my outrage about drinking and driving because I highly doubt she, the passenger, was the only one drinking. I’ll also save you my judgments on what leads people to brown liquor at 11:00 a.m. on a Wednesday, for those things are better reserved for bad reality TV or my nightly prayers, but in this “sincerely really” rant I am mostly astonished at the audacious manner in which they held up the line for their cocktail break. The cashier motioned them to hurry, the car behind me began inching forward as if hitting me would make them hurry up, and I sat in mouth dropping awe thinking, Really??? Well this makes my Grammy’s boldness seem tame. What they failed to realize is a police officer was also craving some saturated fat from the world’s most famous Jack. The cop was inside, but through the drive through window he managed to witness the entire thing. So like I said, “everything we do moves us toward or away from the life we want to lead.” Let’s choose wisely people. Really!!!
this is so true. we want what we want, when we want it, but when we get it, change is something hard to handle.
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