Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?

Janis Joplyn sang:
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?
My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
Worked hard all my lifetime
So Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?

Every morning as I stand and flail autos, who pass me by with sneering wheels ..i think of this song.
Of course since I can barely move cars from one kerb to the next without causing fatal injury to car, self and co-passengers
I would need a natty peaked cappy sort of Ram Singh along with the Benz..
But how much can you ask the good lord for , at one go ?

All of us want several things. In other words ‘to be alive’ is a sign of ,’ to be wanting.’ And yet if you were asked to make 2 boxes of your heart’s desires and label them into
• Must have- or will be hammering on heaven’s door without it
• Junk- I didn’t want it but everyone told me , it’s a must have
What would you choose?

You may find that most of those little spiders which warp your brains are figments of social conditioning. They are not real, they are just measures of success and achievement which someone else did not get and hence made it a tick mark to attain.

Now to decide, what would fill my Junk Box.
• Must become CEO by 40
o I am surrounded by successful entrepreneurs and I have given this up as a social goal to be achieved by others

• Must own house , car and showpiece spouse by age 30
o I am 33…so there goes ,the age is just a number theory
o I like living in rented houses built by other people, they are so much better located
o I do not need a car , I am concerned about greenhouse gases and I want to contribute to the solution, not the problem( Plus my friends ferry me around without a murmur )
o The depreciation value of a showpiece spouse is much higher than any other asset known to man, Correct or not?

• Must have wunderkid baby, who also wins Junior Horlicks contests.
o All wunder-kids tend to grow up into maladjusted young adults and then abuse you in front of shrinks whose expense account your foot. So this too, let it pass

Now to decide, what would fill my Must Have Box.

• Must be able to laugh uproariously at least once a day
• Must be able to give the bum’s rush to random or consistent pain in the asses
• Must be able to appreciate passionately great writing, conversation, theatre, art, poetry, cinema, music, wine, food. ( This is my tick list)
• Must have honest friends, the kind who can laugh from their gut and don’t feature in the next remake of Scream( as the double-crossing , jealous alter ego you never knew you had).( Scarce resource, limited stock but still available)

And therefore Lord, keep the Mercedes and Ram Singh, but give us the ability to
• Keep It Simple and not miss other people’s dreams
• Be so happy that we look forward to the life we wake up to every morning.
• Discover our special talent (and may it not be body smuggling, drug trafficking, spouse conning )


All right then …nice talking to you today. Amen