Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.
—Raymond Carver
I’ve never had the urge to spend the whole day in bed reading, but I do think heaven is (1) not having to set the alarm clock, and (2) having an iPad. I almost always check my e-mail before I roll out of bed. Sometimes I also also play some Sudoku, read in one of my Kindle books, or even watch something on Netflix if it’s a particularly low-energy day.
If that isn’t luxury, I don’t know what is. What are your favorite forms of luxury?
May 26, 2015
I have nothing that can be calssified as a luxury. I suppose that the nearest something can come to be classified as such that I own will be my electrically operated recliner sofa.
But I can identify with Carver. To be able to laze around reading on a rainy dull day is a very enticing prospect indeed. Throw in gallons of hot tea coming up on call with freshly made snacks and it can be heaven. It will come true in the next couple of months for me during my two week ends away at my friend’s farm house.
Nothing that can be classified as a luxury? So much for an attitude of gratitude. 😉 Does that mean you take air conditioning for granted?
One thing that always feels like luxury is sitting in the garden on a warm sunny day with a good book in my hand. Ditto drying myself with a soft, thick towel. Being waited on hand and foot would also be pretty luxurious, but that ain’t going to happen any time soon.
Yes! Those are the little luxuries I’m talking about. Yay, appreciation!
But of course! An automobile was a luxury just two decades ago in India. We had to wait for ten years before we could get a decent refrigerator! I can’t think of any middle class home now in India without air conditioning / air cooling in the case of the drier hot areas.
My attitude of gratitude is for being in the middle class CM!
Yes, people in the middle class have a very luxurious life — if they have the wit to appreciate it. 🙂
for me some of my luxuries are just part of my current life – one of which is ‘doing nothing’ – yesterday afternoon comes to mind – i was sent home because proposed surgery postponed – i didn’t go all the way home but back to my nieces pad – she was busy most of the day and at one point she came into bedroom where i was just sitting with duvet over me – ‘doing nothing’ – she was worried i was bored – but of course i wasn’t…
now i’m home again – surgery will not take place at this point – when i have thought thru’ stuff i may blog about pros/cons of why not…
in the meantime i will let regular life take a back seat and do some more of ‘doing nothing much’
I’m so glad you have the luxury of doing nothing much for a bit. It breaks my heart that you have to deal with your arm on top of everything else.