AND A COKE
“Welcome to McDonalds. May I take your order?”
“Yes, I’ll have a cheeseburger and a Coke. That’s all.”
“That’ll be two-fourteen. Please drive to the first window.”
“Thank you.”
Are your days becoming as exciting as ordering a cheeseburger from the drive through at McDonalds? Predictable and mundane with little or no veering from the ordinary? You would think that when you would drive up to the window that another item would pop out and suggest its’ deliciousness and nutritional value and you would therefore holler, “I’ll take a fish fillet!” At least my think-outside-the-bag friend would say, “I’ll take a cheeseburger with mayonnaise instead of ketchup and a lemonade”. That spruced things up a bit.
But, no. A plain cheeseburger is reliable. It’s fat content mirrors the sluggishness you feel coursing through your daily grind of fog. You can't see your future. It's unclear. You can't see your tomorrow. It's vague yet similar in it’s sameness and as transparent as saran wrap held up to the kitchen light. Clear but not so clear. “Do I just need glasses?" you ask yourself?
No, you need a change. A change in your routine, a change in your patterns of thought, a change in your life and your outlook on it. But where to start? It seems too big a process to even begin, with one thought in front of the next, and one step to take in order for the next one to happen.
“Welcome to Wendy’s. May I take your order?”
“Yes, I’ll have a cheeseburger and a Coke. That’s all.”
“That’ll be two-fourteen. Please drive to the first window.”
“Thank you.”
Are your days becoming as exciting as ordering a cheeseburger from the drive through at McDonalds? Predictable and mundane with little or no veering from the ordinary? You would think that when you would drive up to the window that another item would pop out and suggest its’ deliciousness and nutritional value and you would therefore holler, “I’ll take a fish fillet!” At least my think-outside-the-bag friend would say, “I’ll take a cheeseburger with mayonnaise instead of ketchup and a lemonade”. That spruced things up a bit.
But, no. A plain cheeseburger is reliable. It’s fat content mirrors the sluggishness you feel coursing through your daily grind of fog. You can't see your future. It's unclear. You can't see your tomorrow. It's vague yet similar in it’s sameness and as transparent as saran wrap held up to the kitchen light. Clear but not so clear. “Do I just need glasses?" you ask yourself?
No, you need a change. A change in your routine, a change in your patterns of thought, a change in your life and your outlook on it. But where to start? It seems too big a process to even begin, with one thought in front of the next, and one step to take in order for the next one to happen.
“Welcome to Wendy’s. May I take your order?”
(c) nancy 7.10.2009
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