It’s Fundamental -or- Just Lick the 9-Volt Already
September 13, 2008
There are some things in life that are just fundamental, we eat, sleep, breath, and eventually die… that is if you have an incredibly dismal outlook on the biology class that is your life. Not me. At least not today when the self-medication is working.
I had always felt that there are some other things that are fundamental to the way people live life. It would seem that we all pursue happiness—again, at least when our medication is working—we look for meaning, association, connection, companionship, and yes, we all lick the 9-volt.
You know you remember the first time it happened, just as well as you remember so many other firsts (I’ll let your imagination run wild with that, I’m trying to keep my blog somewhat classroom acceptable).
But this experience was probably over just as fast as the “first” you thought of, and whole lot less elbowy and awkward.
I’m talking about your first dance with a girl. Why? What are you thinking of?
Maybe it was a sibling, older and vindictive; maybe you did it too impress that little girl you had a crush on in third grade, what with her pigtails and missing tooth; or maybe one day you went down the street to your friends house, the one that ate (clean) toilet paper to be weird, and he and his mom pressured you into trying it (the 9-volt, not the toilet paper). Yeah, that probably happened to you too; because apparently you give in to peer pressure a little too easily. Don’t brag about that by the way, no one looks good in sheep.
Now, if you are reading this and thinking “What is wrong with you? I’ve never licked a 9-Volt!” then it’s time to “stuff your sorry’s in a sack mister.” You know that you were offered the opportunity several times. Maybe in high school you went to a party and some friends were passing an Energizer around, you wanted to try it, but you didn’t.
And why didn’t you?
Because you were afraid of peeing your pants a little?
Don’t worry that doesn’t happen. It’s not like the time you accidentally grabbed a rather high voltage electric fence on your grandparent’s farm. And you cried. And you peed your pants just a little. And then your cousin laughed because you peed and cried.
You see what I’m getting at right?
Every day I see and meet people, people who are afraid. They are afraid to live beyond the biological—breath, eat, sleep, die—and grasp the true fundamentals of experiencing life. They just can’t accept that there are things that we all need to do, even if sometimes they make you pee your pants just a little.
