Hello, I’m Renée Valentina and this is Musing Interruptus. A podcast meant for sharing thoughts, stories, enjoying idiomatic phrases and words in general. You can read along; the transcription is in the description of this episode. The idiomatic phrases are in italics. Try to get the meaning from the context and then look them up to see if you were right. If you like it, share it, but more importantly, continue the conversation. Today, sacrificing spectacular.
What wouldn’t we do if we could do it all? Resources be damned. Time in the day to make the most delicious breakfast you can imagine, for the people you love and yourself, sit and read the entire book in one sitting, watch a movie, travel around the world to have lunch with a loved one, take a leisurely walk and if strikes you, run up the steps of a pyramid, for the hell of it, and still have time to work the project of your choice, finishing it in one sitting as well, being completely content you did a great job, with time to spare for a late afternoon of tea with grandma, beers with friends, a romantic conversation and love making with your special person, come home in time to do homework with the kids, play games, make them an amazing dinner and talk about their day at school, everything they learned, what they played with their friends, how much fun they had at space camp and the birthday party at the water park. Everyday. Every day could be as different or similar as the last. You could spend enough time in bed and still be up in time to have the rest of the day at your feet. A lifetime of lifetimes, and always enough resources.
However, I have just been informed the contrary happens. I’m glad someone let me know before the next forty years are up. We are meant to make decisions on a daily basis. We decide how and where to best use our resources. We chose the people we want to surround ourselves with, where we want to work, how we spend our free time, where we want to live. Mind you, making these things happen is not always easy, it seldom is. However, that is part of what makes each of you remarkable, your personal journeys. Each our own motivation, pressure, and tension to make decisions that will count. Knowing full well, when the moment comes, no one else will be there to blame. It is up to us to defend or sacrifice spectacular.
I am reminded of the story of Max and Lola and the pug. They had been friends for years, Max and Lola. Life threw them together after high school and they managed to make something of it. Lola was grateful and convinced of doing everything Max asked her to do. She knew, deep down inside, he was looking out for her. If you asked Max, you would probably hear another story, one that she would never hear. A lot of her life was just about going along with things. With Max, she felt needed, she brought in the money that put food on the table, and she was the only one who could manage his mood swings.
When driving, he had one speed, really fast, and always over the speed limit. They were driving down the coast that day, looking for the right place to set up shop that evening. Lola was dressed the way Max liked it, the curves of her breasts were inviting, at least that is what she was going for. Her summer dress was long, flowy, and her neckline was nowhere near her neck. Max would whisper in her ear that that was her most beautiful attribute. He just had to whisper, and she would feel captured and possessed. Continue reading

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