I was sitting in a meeting today, a teacher meeting, learning new vocabulary strategies to try with students (which were actually the same vocabulary strategies you hear 100 times in the teaching profession, but presented each time in make-over fashion to look like the new cool thing in education), and the conversation among older teachers strayed from vocabulary to food. And, not just any food but sweet food... desserts, chocolate... indulgent foods. And, when asked by the vocabulary-strategy-teacher who was playing off their silliness to provide a "label" or theme to the group of "vocabulary" they were throwing around, these teachers came up with the following: escape, pleasure, happiness, indulge.
Dear Lord, please tell me that we do not bust our tails everyday, only to grow to look forward to chocolate? I mean, these ladies were borderline orgasmic at the table discussing their "escape" with chocolate.
And, can I just go ahead and put it out there that, that will NEVER be me.
I'm sure things change as we get older... I know they do... every year, I notice something new that is changing. But, I vow to myself never to become so comfortable, so settled, that I look forward to chocolate as my big thrill.
Travel. Now, that's an escape. An escape I don't take advantage of enough. An advantage, I plan to work on taking advantage of more often! I want to visit friends... and go out... and experience the places I live and where I am in my life, no matter the age. How can we get so busy or settled or old or detached in our lives that all of that thrill of living gets replaced with dessert?
To each his own, right? But, this girl chooses to "indulge" in something of a different flavor!
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Now this may not be fair.... Chocolate happens to be one of my quick, small, easy and sure ways to indulge! That stuff is pretty special. I knew I was an old lady before my time :)
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