Important and Urgent

Our lives often seem boring.  No drama marks our days.  We drive through congested traffic to work, and . . . ditto coming home.  Yet those of us who watch the occasional TV show are programmed to think our lives should be dramatic, and we get to feeling we are boring.  Dull.  And we equate feeling boring with being 'nothings'.  No bombs go off in our cars, we don't dive from a thirteen story balcony into a convenient swimming pool successfully, we don't carry a gun.

It is easy to feel sorry for ourselves.  A person to whom I was once close feels sorry for herself a lot because she has to manufacture drama in order to feel good about herself.  Needing to be a drama queen she really has become boring.  She was much more interesting and fun to be with when she was herself.

In a book by Dean Koontz his sort-of hero is in a thrift store and has changed into dry clothes.  He reflects that “I tucked the pistol in a deep pocket of the raincoat and opened the changing-room door, prepared—thought not eager—to learn the true and hidden nature of the world.  But first I stopped in this thrift-shop men’s room.  Even the most urgent journey of discovery must allow time for the journeyer to pee.”
  p. 135

Yes, sometimes the most important thing is the most ordinary.  I have to stop and pee.

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