Sneezing and 3x unconditional love

[oak]

I love sneezing.

I love the build up: both the sudden and satisfying sneeze from nowhere, and the slow, 15 second build up kind.

Sneezing is something I am very skilled at.

If heaven exists, I want to sneeze like 3x as I do in this life, which is 2 or 3 times a day

I immediately miss sneezing as soon as I'm done, because I know it will be a few hours or the next day.

Sneezing is a pure gift in this difficult life.

I wish I was sneezing right now.

[snoringdog]

This made me laugh out loud! I'm glad you enjoy sneezing, and the way you describe it makes it sound (!) wonderful, and I can mostly relate.

But more often, I can't stand it - it's an annoyance to be over with, especially when driving or in the middle of a sentence

Interesting too that "we're not alone" in this, animals also do it !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QXSvhn4ywA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on1jjGEWbu4

[brownblob]

Have you tried pepper?

[Heatherwantspeace]

Oak, I am living your dream. I have weird sinuses so I sneeze for many different reasons, and I always sneeze so many times in a row that anyone in the area will comment on it!
Heather

[snoringdog]

A friend of mine would always sneeze after a good meal.

Never heard of that before, but we saw it!

[oak]

Thank you friends for sharing in my joy and love of sneezing. It is pure. It is true.

Three vignettes on unconditional love:

1. You're going to think I'm joking, but I'm not:

The only place that only helps, and never hurts is the shower. The shower asks for nothing, and gives everything. There are four really good reasons to shower, and the shower is the only place on earth that gives exactly everything I can dream of.

2. The one place in America that doesn't ask any questions is Dollar General. Whatever spectrum of pleasures to vices to pleasureable vices you have, Dollar General will supply it without judging.

3a. In heaven, you know where that God I strenuously claim not to believe in lives, I'll be able to eat a bunch of El Yucateco jalapeno sauce (the green) right before going to bed. There is no acid reflux.

You are welcome to Sriracha, Texas Pete, or Choluo. All good choices. Invite me over and we'll enjoy Sriracha. But in heaven-home I'll use green El Yucateco. I hope there is a MIHH meetup in heaven. That'd be really funny if we meet in this life, but never knew it.

3b. In heaven I just want to spend the first thousand years alone. This will sound corny, but I remember spending time, when I was still drinking, in my college library. So much to learn. It was the closest I've been to heaven. A few years later I was hired at a small college as a summer intern; they put me up in a dorm. I could look out my window and see the library. Each day, after my day of easy work, I'd spend an hour or two in the library. Heaven.

3c. While I much prefer being older (wisdom) to being younger, I crave that sense of wonder.

In practice, that means in heaven I get to experience the following for the first time again:

1. I fell in love with someone at first sight on Jan 7, 1997. I'd love to see that person in the same way again. Sigh.

2. I'd love to play Skyrim for the first time again

3. I'd love to hear peak Oasis for the first time again.

4. Oh and peak Adele too. I'd love to hear "Someone Like You" again for the first time.

A very Gen X wishlist!

[brownblob]

Your thousand years alone in the library sounds great, but I immediately thought of a Twilight Zone episode where there is one survivor of a nuclear war or some other catastrophe. He intends to spend his time reading.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAxARJyaTEA

[oak]

A profound meditation on the fact that heaven and hell are closely related, and that hubris can make anything a hell.