Fruitful Epiphany

Oh you know how it is….its 1990, you are young and you have a really bad cold and are unable to attend school/work. You have your soup and your flat lemonade at the ready, cause it works!!

There is nothing on tv because in the middle of the day there is always nothing on tv, except of course Days of Our Lives. You have no idea what the story is, but within a few days of coughing and spluttering you know exactly everything that is going on.

Fast forward fifteen years, it’s now 2005, and yet again you have your feet up and are wrestling with a horrible nasty cold and flu. The same one you probably had ten years earlier, except it has travelled all the way around the world and ten years later is has come back to haunt you.

Of course you have upgraded your soup and flat lemonade for several doses of cold & flu pills along with a good 12yr old single malt whiskey and you have nothing other than feeling sorry for yourself but to sit and watch tv all day. Of course it is the middle of the day and as usual there is nothing on the tv except Days of Our Lives. You wonder to yourself, I wonder what has changed? Its been years since I last looked at the show and I was really starting to get into it. I mean I did learn the entire storyline and plot in only three days, but it was catchy. Kind of like that damn chicken dance song they play at almost every function ever organised by mankind himself. *click* goes the remote…..

Suddenly you are having flashbacks!! Your mum walks in the room and hands you another glass of flat lemonade! Your siblings tease you as they run out and grab their school bags and your dad gives you a stern look as if to say, man up son, and you can already hear his “when I was your age” lecture! What’s happening??

Then it dawns on you, nothing has changed. Not a thing. You vaguely remember the characters looking a lot younger, but you do remember them. They are all there!! Even the one that you thought they had killed off and dismembered and thrown into the sea, he is back!! And some girl who was a daughter of a man who ended up being her brother but wasn’t really and they fell in love and then got married, they were there too!!! Along with what you guess mustn’t be their kids but are but are not. Its a little confusing.

It’s this sudden realisation that brings you to a rather fruitful epiphany! Your life has stood still for 15yrs and you haven’t moved forward in the slightest.

Think it might be about time for a career change. Put down the bottle. Sleep better and longer at night. And for the love all that is pure and sacred in this world, take a sleeping pill and sleep through the middle of day time television. You don’t want another groundhog day do you?

Ollie

Remember, there’s no life quite like your life!

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