Does Your Life Totally Suck?

Suffering from a drab, pointless, and unremarkable life? I sure was. Until I invented a groovy little system that makes even the most UN-interesting day in your life seem quite extraordinary.

I call this system Reinventing the Drab! I contemplated replacing the word drab with the word dull, but drab sounds more feisty!

Everyone hears songs on the radio that they totally relate to. You find yourself singing in the car, nodding your head, and proclaiming aloud, "That's SO me!" -even if it's totally NOT you, but I digress.

I've discovered that if I reflect on the events of the previous boring day and play them back in my mind to music, (creating a mental music video of my life) I'll realize that so-called "boring" day wasn't so boring after all. In fact, it was quite extraordinary.

Take this day ending in 'y': I went to work. I spent an unhealthy length of time staring at the computer. I checked my email. I went to PetSmart. I stopped by the grocery store on my way home. An unexpected snowstorm blew in. I fed the puppies their first solid food. I read Hunter two books before bed. I called it a night.

(I hope the previous paragraph didn't put you to sleep with how outrageously BORING it was!)

During the car-ride into the office the next day, I caught an upbeat song on the radio and put my life to music! (My real life this time...) Singing in the car and drumming my hands on the steering wheel, I didn't care who saw me. My life was reinvented right before my eyes! I saw myself teaching my toddler how to brush his teeth... recalled the laughs I had on the phone with an old friend... there I was in PetSmart spending a solid 20 minutes contemplating the chewiness of the puppy chew toys, emitting a deep and retrospective humph after feeling up each individual option... attempting to dye my hair a blonder shade of blond after a long day's work... dancing in the shower... running out to the car in a bathrobe and snow boots to grab the forgotten bag of puppy chow; the snow blowing in my face turned out to be quite refreshing... puppies pouncing on me with little tails wagging... Hunter's countless bedtime hugs and kisses... my husband holding me while I slept.

A good day.

This little remedy can be applied to any day, I assure you. Try it sometime.

NOTE: If you had a particularly disturbing, depressing, traumatic, or downright painful day... might I suggest you choose a ridiculously happy, bouncy song to do it with. Your attempted suicide, terrifying car wreck, bar fight, husband's affair with his secretary, whatever, is remarkably less horrendous when played back to the sounds of Pop Goes the World (1987) or If I Had a Million Dollars (1992).

Anyway, it's a great way to pass the time between adventures!

References:

Men Without Hats. Pop Goes the World. Pop Goes the World. MCA, 1987

Barenaked Ladies. If I Had a Million Dollars. Gordon. Reprise Records, 1992