Turkish Delight

I think I have been had.  Who enjoys washing up?  It is not a part of the script.  Yet I do enjoy it.  Not because I get off on washing up, but I do get off on music.  I know I am a creature of habit.  When I go into the kitchen, I turn on the music.  It is either my playlist or an artist I am getting into and want to hear more of.
Anyway I was listening today to a song I just added to my play list by a guy called Michael W. Smith called “Love me good.”  It had words that got me thinking in a direction I did not anticipate when I woke up. “Sometimes I wish I was in a movie or some 70's TV thing / Where everything gets neatly wrapped by the end of the show / Yeah, but this ain't Hollywood and this sure ain't the 'Brady Bunch' / And how this plot's gonna all pan out I don't really know
I don’t know if I had just cleaned a plate, but it was definitely before cleaning the knives and forks I thought to myself, “yeah, this is not the end of the book.  I don’t know how all this is going to turn out.”  I know how I want it to turn out.  ”Happily ever after” will do me.
But my life is a page turner (it I for me anyway).  Chapter after chapter describes how my face is set in a certain direction.  I think “I know where I am going with this.”  Then a chapter further on has me looking about and finding something else really enticing.
I talk to books.  At this point I would be saying “What are you doing Kuskie?”  I would have a feeling this was not going to end well for Kuskie.  At this stage instead of a “happily ever after” ending, I would be thinking the book may have a “not so good ever after” ending.
It so reminds me of a series I read by C.S.Lewis that I loved.  It was the Narnia series.  I read it ages ago but a part in “The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe” has always stood out to me big time.  I’ll never forget when Edmond first enters Narnia and met the White Witch.  She gave him Turkish Delight.  He totally loved it.  It was like the best thing he had ever had.  From that point on he became obsessed with it.  Everything he did was with the goal of having that Turkish delight again.  When the time came however it just wasn’t the same.  He realized that in his obsession to get more Turkish Delight, he had compromised others and his future.
I guess I could relate to that big time.  I have done things that were like a wow experience.  I really enjoyed it and wanted it again.  Trouble was, when I did it again it wasn’t the same.  More didn’t help.  I still enjoyed it within a context that was diametrically opposed to a direction that would do me good.
I have found that Turkish Delight is nice, and when it is just a part of my story this page turner is way more likely to have a better ending.