Anticipation
Incidentally, I know I keep going on about it, but this whole Living In The Moment thing...
I like anticipation. I'm capable of getting Very Very Excited about things which haven't happened yet. Sometimes I can sustain this state for months in advance.
And OK, yes, sometimes I even manage to enjoy things while they're actually going on, but it doesn't last long cos before you know it they're over. And, well... don't you get better value if you enjoy things before they happen? I mean, in some ways, aren't we planners better off than you annoying living-in-the-moment chappies?
I remember being about twelve years old and on my way, yet again, to the corner shop to buy Dolly Mixture. I had a bit of an addiction to Dolly Mixture in my youth. I ate it so much it made my burps eggy. But what I used to think to myself, as I cycled yet again to the corner shop, was... I'll buy them, I'll eat them, they'll be yummy, and then it'll be all over. Gone. And I'll have to wait 'til the next time.
But really, the best bit... well, it was the sitting around thinking, "Mmmm, Dolly Mixture." And the ride to the shops. And the watching, while they weighed them out ("a quarter of Dolly Mixture please").
Anticipation. It's under-rated.
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I like anticipation. I'm capable of getting Very Very Excited about things which haven't happened yet. Sometimes I can sustain this state for months in advance.
And OK, yes, sometimes I even manage to enjoy things while they're actually going on, but it doesn't last long cos before you know it they're over. And, well... don't you get better value if you enjoy things before they happen? I mean, in some ways, aren't we planners better off than you annoying living-in-the-moment chappies?
I remember being about twelve years old and on my way, yet again, to the corner shop to buy Dolly Mixture. I had a bit of an addiction to Dolly Mixture in my youth. I ate it so much it made my burps eggy. But what I used to think to myself, as I cycled yet again to the corner shop, was... I'll buy them, I'll eat them, they'll be yummy, and then it'll be all over. Gone. And I'll have to wait 'til the next time.
But really, the best bit... well, it was the sitting around thinking, "Mmmm, Dolly Mixture." And the ride to the shops. And the watching, while they weighed them out ("a quarter of Dolly Mixture please").
Anticipation. It's under-rated.
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Labels: Optimism, Philosophisering
7 Comments:
The phrase, 'a novel wot I wrote' was enough to secure my interest. But now I learn that you used to be a vegetarian lesbian? Which is wot I am! Yes, and your house in Mancs sounds rather nice.
I can also hold pencils under my boobs. I'm not sure how many but I'll try and count and let you know how it goes.
Anticipation is great, positive, enjoyable - and as a pleasant feeling it is, paradoxically, enjoyable in the moment. What's dodgy is when enjoyable anticipation tips over into hating life now because it isn't that better place you'll be in when you get your Dolly Mixture. Or whatever it is that you're anticipating. Because if you take that to its limits, you never get to the good bits - or, more likely, you forget to notice them in your anticipatory haze. But anticipation per se - love it!
There is of course the dark side to anticipation. When you're anticipating something difficult and you get yourself into a frenzy of worry about it. Then you actually do it, and it's fine. And you wonder what all the fuss was about.
Anxious: you're bang on. It's my ability to panic myself into the future that often does for me in terms of anticipation. Consequently, even though I am quite a planner, I'm also (contradictorily?) often found trying hard to NOT over-anticipate events I have planned for --- just in case that grim pesimism overtakes me.
Oh, well then you'll be interested to know what I've got planned for you
An interesting concept. I know people very much like that. For instance, once I went on holiday with some friends and they spent the whole time we were away planning their next holiday.
In the long run though, I think people who follow your concept of anticipation are likely to be productive people, always looking to the future, making improvements to their lives.
Me, I live in the distant past...
Morgan, welcome! Apologies for my slowness in responding. Yay for lesbian vegetarians. I could do with more lesbians round these 'ere parts. And yes, my house is lovely. If a bit messy. And dirty. And leaky.
Zinnia: hating the present. Well yeah, I never said I was perfect...
Anxious: Too true. But luckily I'm not so bad on that score. If anything bad is coming up, I just refuse to think about it.
JoeInV: I am intrigued! And a little scared.
Mr Moonke: I also live in the past (see diary entries). But yes, tis true, I am highly productive too. Sometimes. Well, most of the time. Yay me!
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