Sometimes –
I have a craving for starches - lots of hot, salty starch like pasta or noodles or hot bread. I seldom if ever crave sweets.
I suddenly say out loud expletives or short sentences. One of my professors thought I had a touch of Tourette’s Disorder; I suspect she is correct.
I reread favorite passages from favorite books; they are cheerful as old friends.
I get so frustrated and angry with patients I want to scream at them.
I dream about quitting my job and doing something else, but I can’t yet figure out what that something else would be.
I am envious of my brother, who has children.
Bananas make me sick to my stomach, but not always. I haven’t found any correlation to this intermittent problem.
I am amazed how people screw up their lives – despite 15 years in my line of work.
I get the uncanny feeling there is a spirit or angel doing things around me. I call this presence Charles Clarence. I thank him when this phenomena occurs.
I eat french fries with vinegar.
I have headaches after eating lunch.
I remember to write things in the social/appointment calendar at home.
I sense my life has been a failure.
I feel that everything is just as it should be.


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February 4, 2008 at 10:01 pm
rodger
Starches - Check
Expletives - Check
Rereading passages – check
Screaming – check
Quitting the job – check
French Fries with vinegar – check
Forgetting to put things on the calendar – check
Failure? – check
Children – What are you thinking? You have siblings for that!
Things are just as they should be – check
You, my friend, have just shown that you are human, mortal and a thinker. Isn’t life beautiful?
Urspo - One of my favorite short stories is “The Garden Party”. It ends with a person asking ‘Isn’t Life….” but she can’t exactly put it in words. She gets the response “Isn’t it?”
February 5, 2008 at 4:47 am
Mike aka Pistolotto
I do believe that with your passion for gardening that you perhaps could change your profession and become an organic farmer. It would help you spiritually and provide fruits and vegetables which are more healthy for everyone…even the environment. Could you PULEEEZZZE grow some JERSEY WHITE SWEET POTATOES….just for me? They are my favorite and almost impossible to find.
Now about that “I sense my life has been a failure” crap…[slap slap]…as Cher said in “Moonstruck,” “snap out of it.”
Thought for the day: Learn from the mistakes of others; you can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
Urspo - Remember this is a “Sometimes” list. i do these things sometimes. I know where you can get Jersey White Sweet Potatoes by the way.
February 5, 2008 at 5:28 am
Lemuel
The fact that you do these things sometimes (and underlined by your response to Mike aka P-) only itself emphasizes that you are indeed like the rest of us. In that should be reassurance for you (especially considering your next to last comment). It certainly has been reassurance for the rest of us (understanding that you do the same things we do.)
February 5, 2008 at 6:03 am
tigeryogiji
“I sense my life has been a failure”
HARDLY!!!
February 5, 2008 at 6:08 am
Brent
MMM…french fries with vinegar.
Urspo - and sometimes with Tabasco. Seldom with nasty ketchup.
February 5, 2008 at 7:35 am
Raven~
French fries with salty Thousand Island dressing and Jalapenos!
(I told ya I miss SoCal (WINK!))
February 5, 2008 at 8:46 am
Lewis
Oh you guys are killing me….FREEDOM fries with T/O dressing and vinegar? Decidedly YUKKY>
February 5, 2008 at 9:46 am
Merri
I always eat chips(french fries) with vinegar..especially MALT vinegar, it is the best!!
Ever try that?
NEVER say failure!! I am stunned…(YES, snap out of it!!!!)
take care…
Urspo - I paraphrase, but Mark Twain wrote that no man gets through his life without secretly wondering if his life had been a failure.
February 5, 2008 at 10:25 am
Michael
Those last two, especially paired, make me feel you (although “as it should be” suggests more of a plan than I feel).
February 5, 2008 at 10:52 am
Pink
Oh yes. I have angels on my shoulders. Definately.
And I’d like to thank Charles Clarence too.
Sometimes I feel so many of those things too…especially in February.
xx
pinks
February 5, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Sean
“The only failed life is one that has ended - so long as you draw a breath and awak to a new day, you have , in some small way, succeeded” - the wisdom of breenlantern.
It’s good to reflect, and we all have our good and bad days and moments of doubt about ourselves and our lives….but I’m a stateworker, so compared to that, you’re a friggin’ “Mr. Trump” ha ha ha….
February 5, 2008 at 12:43 pm
BentonQuest
You know, people had (and still have) a problem when it came to light the Mother Theresa felt at times her life was a failure. I think you are right in that we all feel that way at times. Just know that when you feel that way, you are wrong!
February 5, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Seamus Aloysius
You’re lucky to have Charles C. about, Bro.
…and you must know that your life has touched so many in a positive light.
(mine included) even when you feel like screaming.
Thanks for being out here…
February 5, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Robert
“I feel that everything is just as it should be.”
I’ve always felt that life is perfect as ‘perfect’ can be.
February 5, 2008 at 3:45 pm
DougT
On occasionally wondering if your life has been a failure. I have the same feelings at times. Other times I feel a profound sense of accomplishment (as I suspect you do as well). I think this is just part of leading an examined life. See you in just 11 days.
February 6, 2008 at 7:52 am
tr
And always - you are human. You’ve arrived - congratulations!!!
February 6, 2008 at 3:14 pm
stumpjumper
A failure? Hardly.
Just don’t expect applause, reward, or thanks for what you do. Just do because it gives you a sense of accomplishment, pleasure, being alive and part of this wonderful life.
Angels dance around us all the time. They bring a balancing music to our daily life. They watch over us and sometimes give us a rather harsh nudge in the right direction.
February 8, 2008 at 11:56 pm
Zeph
Oh, Tourette’s. There’s an idea. I don’t suppose a tendency to shout “OUCH!” on occasion is quite foul enough, though, really.