"If something happens, I want a nice big party, right here in the house. No funeral homes. Have it catered with lots of champagne and play my Cd's...not yours."
Hub wears a poker face. He gave up trying to dissuade my funeral soliloquy many trips ago.
The morbid preparation is necessary if I'm to have a safe trip. It keeps the Eye of God from noticing me.
My grandparents, both sets, came from Eastern Europe and brought the Eye of God with them.
God (at least the Eastern European type) dislikes unearned happiness.
If you suffer (preferably for a long time), then you can enjoy some happiness. But if you haven't suffered enough (and enough is difficult to quantify) .....your unearned happiness.....precipitates God raising his eyebrow ( at your arrogance).....and perhaps wiping you off the face of the earth.
So you want to keep God off guard.
You don't want Him to think you're anticipating an event....(God forbid)..... or going someplace to enjoy yourself ( looking for happiness in other zip codes also pisses God off).
So you pack.....get your bags ready.....get excited about what you're going to see and do....and then you tell everyone about your funeral plans. If you acknowledging death awaits you by air, taxi or rental car, you're letting God know .... you're not as happy as you look and hence His eyebrow remains in a static position.
Tomorrow I'm leaving for New York City....and I've completed the routine....everyone knows I'm happy to go.....and everyone knows I'm not too happy because I could die in the process.
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Trouble is.....I'm not from the Old Country....and even though I intrinsically understand the Eye of God and how to placate the forces at work.....I'm also aware of the Law of Attraction.....the current new age philosophy which states you get what you think about.
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So if I placate my ancestor's God.....I could invoke the Law of Attraction...and end up exactly where I don't want to end up...in a state I don't want to be in.
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The classic double-edged sword.
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Consequently.....I want to put God and the universe on notice.
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I'm leaving for NYC Friday.
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I travel safely to sources of happiness
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while understanding that a flutter of God's lids could send my little ass into oblivion.
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Is it okay to leave now?
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