I’m not sure if it’s legal to post an excerpt from a book on my blog, but I’ll risk it. One of my favorite books is Encyclopedia of An Ordinary Life by Amy Krouse Rosenthal. In the below, she offers life as a Preset Menu; No Substitutions Please. She offers a reminder that no one has everything. Which menu would you choose?
Menu A
• Charming
• Good at Ping-Pong
• Bad Speller
• A lot of moles
• Content with career
• Optimistic
• Car breaks down a lot
Menu B
• Fabulous Piano Player
• Quite unattractive
• Rich
• Well-behaved children
• Allergic to chocolate
• Grating Laugh
• Nice Garden
Menu C
• Friends who adore you
• Chronic insomnia
• Look great in skimpy underwear
• Color-blind
• Bilingual
• Motivated
• Bad Kisser
• Will live a long life
My choice? B looks pretty good, but being quite unattractive and having a grating laugh is a daunting combo, even if you are rich. C look good to, who doesn’t want to look good in skimpy underwear, but what’s the point if you’re a bad kisser? I would choose A, I can deal with moles and my car breaking down, plus I already am a bad spleller.
2 comments:
I would pick C.
No one has everything. We're only human.
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