Luxury

[flexagon]

I get Gretchen Rubin's monthly newsletter, because there's always something interesting in one of the posts. This time, that something was in the What's your idea of luxury? post. People said flowers, books, housecleaners, bubble baths, but one reader said...

being able to start and finish a task on the same day.

OMG YES. This week I spent about three hours on Tuesday afternoon writing a design doc, and it was a mildly crazy thing to do because I was on vacation that day, but it felt great. Great to write, great to have written it. And you know, that luxury of being able to do it in one big sweep was exactly the sort of thing I most value in an unstructured "for me" sort of day.

I think from now on I might actually try to get this luxury a bit more, now that it's been identified. Starting and finishing a task on the same day. Delicious. Yes. And, oh, some more luxuries... sleeping until I wake up on my own. Living with an ocicat. Having two lovers. Taking as long as I feel like at the gym. Mochas with coconut milk, from Starbucks. Re-reading favorite books.

Comments

[triesticity.livejournal.com]

I get that newsletter too, and I agree, there's always something interesting! I liked the "on Saturdays I let myself read for as long as I want" comment - a lot of my reading-time is commuting-time and is therefore naturally bounded, but yeah, it is a luxury when I'm at home and let myself just read, without thinking about if the bed is made, if the dishes are done, if I should be cooking something instead.

And mm, yeah, sleeping until I wake up on my own, that is one of my favorite weekend luxuries.

[a-kosmos.livejournal.com]

I may need that newsletter. My version of luxury is a beautifully, detail-oriented clean house that I don't have to think about, great aromatherapy oils, a lovely perfume that cllings to your clothes...

[ellenclaire.livejournal.com]

Yes to the gym. And to the lovers. And the sleeping until I wake up on my own. My biggest one: spending an entire day without having to let anyone know where I am or what my plans are. Being unaccountable to anyone at all is a rare and deeply luxurious thing.