Is Your Life Real or Memorex?
March 24, 2009 by Marye Audet
Filed under Beautiful Things
One of my favorite Christmas movies is Christmas in Connecticut, the old original version with Barbara Stanwyck. Barbara plays a food writer who writes these amazing articles about her family, cooking adventures and life on a large farm in Connecticut. The problem is that she is a single woman, living in a cramped apartment in New York …and she can’t cook at all.
Now, I am not saying that I have been lying about who I am..let’s get that straight right now…but I seem to have a RSS feed of my alternate life going through my head all the time..You know, the one where my house is spotless, I wear vintage aprons, and take a break two times a day to gaze out the window and sip tea from an antique china cup whilst nibbling (alter egos always nibble..munching is for reality) on a biscotti, cookie, or scone.
And honestly sometimes it is hard to live comfortably in one reality while another is playing through your head.
So…thoughts? Anyone else besides me feel that way? Or do I need to make another appointment with the VA?
What is your real life like? The one that plays in your head? And if you were a book character who would you be?
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I’ve been reading Joyce Meyer’s “Battlefield of the Mind.” The main idea of the book is think about what your thinking about and watch the thoughts that you allow in your mind.
I read that bok and enjoyed it, Marla..she also has one for kids that makes a great Bible study
The person in my head is organized. I keep hoping she’ll rub off:-)
Yeah, me too Linette! Plus mine is a combination of Marmee, Angelina Jolie, Mother Teresa, and Marie Curie.
Marye, I can’t seem to get that “reply” feature to work for me. Anyway, the person in my head gets to travel a lot more! And she has published books of poetry. : )
Peggy LOL! that is cool.
Vee- I am not..I think that what you read is pretty much what I am…but I do have this perfect woman in my head that disdains my feeble attempts at perfection
Oh I dare say that we are more careful about who we present to the blogging community. All I know is that I am thrilled with the 10% of reality.
As for believing myself to be anyone but who I am? Not too often. My imagination has probably been compromised.