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When I don’t get what I thought I wanted, it’s because I didn’t need it. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
It started with an apple and a hunger for more, for better. The feelings of if so and so can have it, why the hell am I forbidden to have it also???
Truth be known, when I cannot sleep I watch old reruns of shows that make me laugh. I love to laugh, and since my cat, Whiskey, is not as gifted a thespian or communicator as she led me to believe that one sunny day 9 years ago, when she reached a tiny paw outside her cage in the SPCA and caught my arm, I find that the older she gets, all she wants is to be stroked! Egads, she has become a hand junkie!!!! I digress...
The old rerun I watched was of Fraizer. I feel another aside coming on.. but I need to do this one. Sometimes, the shows that become my favs are the ones where the producers typecast the roles to actors who have the inane ability to become that specific character. Fraizer, Niles, Martin, Daphne, and Eddie.. all fit the persona that they have been assigned and the ease that they deliver punch lines with the little innuendos that do the same thing as toes skimming the edge of the ocean..
The episode was one where Fraizer and Niles peruse an invitation that was misdelivered to their mailbox instead of Fraizer's co-tenant in the high rise, Cam Winston. It was a private invitation to a hootiey toitey posh new place that was opening.. and their curiosity overcame them. They all of a sudden had to know what the snooty place did. So off they set to find out... only to learn it was a day spa, complete with stone and shafts (river rock and wheat) presented as if those objects were rare and precious.
Funniest is that the writer wove this into a comedy. About the indignation that arises in the human when they think others have "more or better" than they (do). After gaining that first level and making it into the day spa. They are checking out, completely raving about how reborn they are, when past them a senator strolls into another area of the spa. The girl tells them they cannot enter that level, that they are only "silver" members and that area was reserved for only "gold" members and was only attained by referral from one that already possessed such rank and privilege or by social standing.
All of a sudden, all the marvelling that was done at their rebirth became "hell and 'not good enough'", while their green-eyed passion to gain entry into that denied sanctuary of the "gold" level ate at their insides, their indignation became more and more inflamed. After trying, they finally were able (with the help of a friend) to attain entrance to the "gold" section, but not without a warning that it would only lead to wanting the "diamond" level, then "platinum" level, the "titanium" level, yada, yada, yada.
It seems that the inner beast is never quite satisfied .. as it is exactly what happened.. the scene ended with both of them feeling that the "gold" level was once again "heaven", until they spotted a "platinum" door, to which they were once again denied entrance. Being that this ate away at their insides they decided to throw caution to the wind and barge through the door to what they felt "they did deserve.. they were that good and damn it all, they would have it".. once on the other side after the initial fogging of the brain with their haughty pride and shite.. they breathed in deep only to find out they were among the garbage.
The depth in a comedy.. to write about the driving force of so many .. feeling we DERSERVE better than what we have in front of us. I remember hearing those words from somewhere in my past.. actually from many parts of my memory they come back to me.. "I deserve more".. "I deserve better"... it all boils down to:
BE CAREFUL OF WHAT YOU WISH.. YOU JUST MIGHT GET IT.....
And to quote someone that I hope will always be listed in my friend category.. OR NOT...
Each of you have a damn fine Friday.. I know I always do!!!
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ColdinWisconsin
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Oct 10 @ 2:15PM
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Excellent blog! Very well done!
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ohtayicu
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Oct 10 @ 3:33PM
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but striving to attain, to reach new heights is the american way,,,
ifffffffffffffffffffffffffffff, we do it in moderation.  or not...
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oceanlover734
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Oct 10 @ 3:53PM
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I read this a couple of times and thought damn at this one thing feeling we DERSERVE better than what we have in front of us. Really amazing....how many times have I actually thought that very thought and felt justified in it? If I'm honest here and I am, I probably have been very wrong with this thought many times in my life. To me the lesson in this blog is to really see the beauty and potenial of what is before one. Not saying we have to accept less than what is best for us but to actually see what is before us with eyes wide open. ~*~
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redtigr
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Oct 10 @ 9:40PM
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Our commercial world bombards us with glossy, shiny, glitzy things; all intended to make us envious and desirous of things we never knew we needed. And yes, we're often told we deserve these superfluous things.
Deserve is a strange word. It implies that fairness and even-handedness exists in life - a concept that sounds right and good, but doesn't necessarily reflect reality.
All we can do is adjust our own attitude, and do the best we can.
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