The Pretender 2


I had an epiphany today. I was in the Dutch Goose with Susan and my mom after a great run with Streeter and his friend David at Huddart Park. I was looking around the Goose and I said “I want a job that I can sit around on Sunday afternoon and drink beer and watch the football game.” When I got home and got into the shower (I have the majority of my moments of clarity either running or in the shower), I realized, I really don’t want that, it just doesn’t get me where I want to go. The irony was that just 15 minutes earlier Susan and I were discussing that sometimes you have values and living them doesn’t always look like you think it should. It’s funny that it can take a while to really listen to yourself.

One of my favorite songs, The Pretender:
Good explanation and acoustic version
A great version with a full band from VH1 Storyteller, I think. Here is the audio of the the intro to the video above with another great explanation of the song.


2 thoughts on “The Pretender

  • Dylan

    “I want a job that I can sit around on Sunday afternoon and drink beer and watch the football game.”

    Didn’t you make this statement while you were sitting around on a Sunday afternoon at a pub, with beer all around you and football games on at least one TV?

  • saulj

    Yes, I did but I didn’t drink beer and we didn’t really watch more than about 10 minutes. The majority of the time I was there I didn’t really engage with the TVs.

    True, but the distinction to me was that I was “in” it, but I wasn’t “of” it but I thought I wanted to be. The situation is much more clear to me when I go to In-and-Out. I am there for a treat, eat and leave. Ironically, it is even clear to me when Susan and I go to City Pub on Fridays. There are “lifers” there, and but I’m just there for a visit. In the past, it has been less clear to me at the Dutch Goose for whatever reason.

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