The splendour of the giddy little thrill

Enough trash talking. Let's get down to brass tacks. This blog is spiralling out of control with negativity! It's madness. If I go on any longer I may have to unleash the caps lock fury. Sufficed to say that I'm taking this post in a slightly different direction.

Have you ever laid in bed at night and then had this little sensation come over you (keep it out of the gutter folks), and wanted to chuckle for a while, or shove your partner out of bed just to play? Ever seen something on TV that was so awesome, that when you think of it it gives you a warmth down in the cockles of your heart? Have you ever felt the need to go happily crazy and just start doing random things that make absolutely no sense to anyone but you? This is what I like to refer to as the giddy little thrill. It's that point of euphoria that seems to randomly jump into our lives and makes you want to break out. You might get it from perusing past memories of your childhood, or thinking of that special someone. You might feel it while driving your car fast, or by stealing a magazine from your doctors office. Heck it might get that glorious feeling just before you need a real good bowel movement. It doesn't matter.

However it works out you find yourself inevitably kicking out the jams, or starting something that is at least for the moment spiritually uplifting. It likely will not make any great sense to anyone else but you, and in fact most people watching you might think you're pepped up on goofballs, but you'll know that what you're doing is awesome, consequences be damned! It's full steam ahead, outta my way, and look out world because you feel on top of Mount Awesome. You are bigger than Jesus, and you feel great.

The giddy little thrill is a momentary thing, which may be fleeting at best, but is so incredible that you crave crave more. Drugs don't give it to you. Booze doesn't do it either. Jumping out of a plane may or may not do it for you, because it'll likely be masked by overwhelming fear and excitement. The giddy little thrill is a small thing which seems bigger than it actually is. It's a random occurrence, as if it was sneaking up on you all day long and suddenly your set upon by it, and you can't turn off the smile even if you were arrested. You just want to shout, dance, play air guitar, and you want all kinds of other people to have the same feeling as well. A complete and unexpected moment of wonderful bliss and inspiration.

If you can capture that feeling in a day to day environment, be it at home or at work, savour it and hold on as long as you can. There's too much complaining and not enough laughing.

Now excuse me while I go rock out on top of my filing cabinet, and think about launching my rocket.