Life Glee
The good parts of an ordinary day tend to be short, quiet and unannounced. They are worth catching anyway, and catching them is mostly a matter of looking.
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The good parts of an ordinary day tend to be short, quiet and unannounced. They are worth catching anyway, and catching them is mostly a matter of looking.
Ask somebody what they are dreading this week and the answer comes quickly: a meeting that will run long, a phone call that has been put off twice, a form that needs three documents nobody can find. Ask the same person what they expect to enjoy and there is a pause, then something vague about the weekend. The dread is specific and the pleasure is a rumour. This is not a character flaw and it is not a sign that the week is bad. It is simply that unpleasant things arrive with dates attached, while the good parts of a day tend to turn up unscheduled, last ninety seconds, and leave without a receipt.
Life Glee is interested in that second list, the one that is hard to produce on demand. The first mouthful of tea while the kettle is still ticking as it cools. The particular sound of a door that has always stuck. Cold air on your face for the twenty steps between the car and the shop. A jumper that has gone soft in the way only old wool goes soft. None of these will change a week. All of them are available in a week, most weeks, without money, planning or anybody else's cooperation, which is more than can be said for almost anything else that gets called a treat.
Large pleasures are absorbed into normal life with remarkable speed, while minor ones seem oddly resistant to it.
Certain sensations arrive at full strength and then fade within seconds, which is precisely why they land.
Repetition is usually treated as the enemy of interest, and in this one area it is the opposite.