VOICES IN MY HEAD
No, I'm not talking about my characters' voices. All novelists have these people in their head and I'm told this is perfectly normal (by other writers, not by the general normal public).
I'm talking about those other voices. Voices from the past. Phrases said to me so many times they're repeated like a parrot's echo in my head. Some people have ugly voices that replay, but I was blessed to have been surrounded by people who didn't scar me like that.
My voices are more benign.
Like when I'm in a hurry and drop something, I grin because my Granny's words are already beginning to play. Haste makes waste.
When I feel guilty for leaving food on my plate at a restaurant, my mom's words always reassure me. Better wasted in the garbage than on the hips. Amen.
A cool breeze on a warm summer's day and Granny's words come rushing back. Thank you, Lord, for the cool breeze.
And then there's Grandpa. It wasn't so much his words that stuck as the sarcasm with which he said them. No worries, Grampa, your sarcasm lives on.
So next time that phrase replays in your head, just tell yourself your normal. Or at least, as normal as me. Now there's a comforting thought.
8 Comments:
I hear voices in my head al the time too! It gets pretty crowded in there sometimes. LOL
I like your mom's take on food left on the plate. Much better than the old "there's people starving in Africa who'd be happy to have that." My hips want to say, "Fine - send it to them."
It's funny that you should post this because a couple nights ago is was reminded of this very thing.
As a kid, and really, as an adult too, I always have a song in my head. I remember being 10 or 12 years old and sitting at the dinner table waiting for my parents and brothers to come sit at the table. I was quietly humming or singing, and my grandmother bent over me and said, "Sing at the table, cry before bed."
To this day, when my daughter (or my son, who is at the dinner table at this very moment doing his home work and humming!) is singing at the table, I think about my grandmothers' saying....although I don't repeat it, because (honestly) i think it's silly! It drives me crazy when I think about it!
;)
Diane, Ane, when mum grew up it was the starving children in china,
and one day mum came back with Well you can send them my food.
didn't go down to well.
but i get things stuck in my head repeating but i tend to get more songs in my head and just cant move them.
Since last night I have been planning a post about much the same thing! LOL
Kellie, I've never heard that quote before. Interesting.
Ane, the starving children thing never made sense to me. Is it going to help them if I eat it?
i had it explained to me that there were starving children in africa who would give anything for the food i had and sould be greatful. i too thought they could have my vegetables.
I have quite a few voices I wish would go away, but many are more pleasant.
I often laugh at intersections because I hear my Mammaw's voice saying "One's a coming." She never learned to drive, and she would say that if she saw even a speck in the distance. I wish I could hear her say that again.
There's too many weird sayings in my family to remember them all.
Sadly, I can hear in my head the voice of actor Albert Finney as Daddy Warbucks telling Annie, "You are special. Never stop believing that."
And the song of the day was a very bad choice at the gym: "Boney Maroney." What fat woman wants to hear a song about a woman as "skinny as a stick of macaroni" when she's huffing, puffing, sweaty and miserable just to be able to shop in the normal woman's section.
Sorry. I'm cranky. Tomorrow's Singles Awareness Day.
Post a Comment
<< Home