These were the names I saw on two license plates of cars parked side by side in the library parking lot. Vanity plates always crack me up but these two had me curious. I wondered if these people knew each other somehow. Their names seemed...well... intriguingly compatible. EZJOY's car was a deteriorating old Mustang in rusty brown. The backseat appeared to have a hurricane of papers and junk strewn around. Too much joy perhaps? In direct contrast, Miss Lilly's powder blue volkswagon was neat as a pin, complete with a single flower in the special flower holder. Miss Lilly also had a handicapped sticker. Visions of Driving Miss Daisy filled my head. Did Miss Lilly experience joy? Did EZJOY like flowers?
I looked for the possible owners of these distinctive vehicles within the library but they must have been hiding in the stacks. Did EZJOY enjoy science fiction, fantasy, or perhaps even philosophy? Was Miss Lilly browsing gardening books or maybe something exotic like how to raise angora rabbits? Would they meet to discuss their literary findings?
I would never find out. Perhaps EZJOY and Miss Lilly never crossed paths at all. But in my mind they are sitting at some coffee shop sipping lattes and discussing books and friendship.
Oh the worlds that exist in the realm of my ever wandering and wondering mind.
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In the event that anyone is interested I have been writing about both depression and Multiple Sclerosis this week. I am immersed...and sometimes submerged in both topics.
Sometimes one acquires a personal philosophy on life after spending time at the bottom of the emotional well.
You can find my ponderings in the aftermath of depression here.
Have you ever used steroids? No not those kind of steroids. I am talking about the kind used to decrease inflammation. And in the case of Multiple Sclerosis, steroids are used to decrease the symptoms of MS. I have written about my personal experience with taking oral Prednisone here. I know a lot of you have had a ton of experience with taking this drug. Please feel free to join the conversation and tell others about how you fared taking Prednisone.
More of this and that to come!
Come sit a spell and shoot the breeze. Sweeten the day with a little synchronicity...
15 comments:
That is such a lovely piece of writing, so smiley and clever. They come alive even though neither you nor the reader gets to see them. Clever, neat and very smiley.
This group, from what I know about it after being here a while can at least provide you with ideas for future articles given how wide the experiences are in MS and therefore Depression. Nothing like helping Merely Me carry it to a wider, waiting audience. The Prednisone saga is especially interesting given what it does for MS sufferers. Merely has been hitting home runs there.
I think one of those two registration plates were yours, in case you need to do the near impossible. But which one would Merely drive? Let's see a family of boys, fast food. But the other car a favorite color and neat. If the single flower was a Daisy, that's yours.
Merely me,
I love this. It's so easy to forget the small, simple beautiful things in life as we concentrate on the bigger picture and stay busy.
Thank you for taking the time to stop and smell Miss Lilly's flowers.
And thank you for sharing a beautiful moment with us.
Great observations. I too notice and wonder about those with vanity plates.
Sometimes I prefer the stories I can imagine about people....rather than the realities!
Linda D. in Seattle
hey d... glad you're still writing...
hope they pay you?
I enjoyed your observations about the owners of the vanity plates. It seems like the perfect little life detail that sparks a story.
I love making up stories about people in my head. I want some EZJOY stat!
I also enjoy vanity plates although some of them throw me for a loop. There are usually some at our local library and it does make me wonder who belongs to which vehicle.
Then again, I just love our library which was just redone and is beautiful and has elevators and more room! I just hardly ever get there now.
Your blog is one of my faves. I'm glad I stumbled across you in this cyberworld!
Weebs
Oh the gamut of emotions that go along with a chronic illness. The peaks and valleys....I do not suffer from MS but I was recently diagnosed with Colitis and had to live with a pacemaker for most of my life and yes at times been in that state of depression.
When I was diagnosed with Colitis I was put on Prednisone....oh the joys of it all...NOT!!!.....the hot flashes and sweating...the moon face...the mood swings....does that ring any bells to you.....I am goind to read more about you story and MS...thank for sharing and for being so open about it.....
I picturing you wondering around a parking lot looking for car owners...I took Pednisone ONCE--never again, made me feel unwell. Solu-medrol from there out.
I agree an excellent post - and all from a simple observation and a lot of speculative imagination. I do this sometimes. Spot someone or something that catches my muse and I invent an entire life/existance for them-it. Oh and my car's as messy as the first one. No vanity plates though. If I did I'd have something like COOLDUDE 1 OR SEXGOD01...LOL
You follow a link on another blog to yet another blog trying to find interesting things to read (blog names can be like vanity plates, don't you think?) and you finally wind up somewhere that there are interesting things posted. It was a pleasure to stop by.
The names of vehicles can also be interesting. I parked our car in church parking lot and found I was parked between a Quest and an Odyssey.
My father took Prednisone (I don't remember what for), and it made him very irritable.
Always, but always a joy to read your posts. I am so sad that we cannot have plates as personailsed as you guys do int he the US. Here we have to try to make something appear personalised within the constraints of a very strict licence plate format by using numbers to replace letters. e.g. B1GOT
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