I am glad Sigmund Freud and I never met. Had we done so I fear I would not be here (free, that is) musing in my usual fragmented way.
Today I murdered my balloons.
What kind of comment /confession is that? My kind.
Those long-suffering readers who saw my item on the balloon family I acquired on my birthday back in March will perhaps remember that I intended to keep the helium filled 'children and mama' as long as I could.
They were still occupying a chair this morning in various states of deterioration when I suddenly thought "this is mad, they are taking up a whole chair, the room is a mess".
With that I took my letter opener and callously ended their existence.
Now I feel guilty!
That, odd though it may be is as nothing to the fact that I 'talk' to the birds when I've been out all day and they were fed only once (early morning), instead of two or even three times.
When I eventually - after a very long time, throw out a pair of worn-out shoes I say, "sorry, you really have to go". Then I miss them.
If the large pale ginger cat who is a regular at my restaurant, doesn't eat all his biscuits I say "sorry I shopped somewhere else and they don't sell the ones you like".
I could go on, but for the sake of your poor nerves will refrain.
There is probably a (not very nice) name for my sort of mind but, if you know it, please keep it to yourself.
If I were a bit older I'd say we'd been separated at birth, Ray! I'm forever talking out loud when I'm on my own and occasionally when I'm not, so you're not alone.
ReplyDeleteSister in (no, not lunacy), eccentricityperhaps? :-)
DeleteI do the same in giving non-living things a form of being. When I throw away things I apologise!
ReplyDeleteOf course. Wouldn't want to hurt their feelings would you?
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