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August 15, 2005
Dreaming about Restaurants
I dream so often about working in a restaurant that I’m starting to wonder what that's about.
I worked in a restaurant for long time - about six years in two stints of about three years each - but it was years ago. I worked in two restaurants before that, but it’s always that last one I dream about.
Just a couple nights ago I dreamed I was working there again, but that they had changed their table numbering scheme and I was having a hard time remembering the numbers of the tables in my section.
Most of my restaurant dreams are like that - I’m working there again but something’s changed or I’ve changed and I just can't handle the job anymore. I’m slow, confused, uncoordinated. I can't keep up. I’m old. I’m not the same young woman I was at the time.
Maybe that’s why I dream about restaurants so much. They represent a time when I was young, sure of myself, independent and just starting out in the adventure of life. Now at nearly-forty, I sometimes long for those younger days. But I guess part of me knows there’s not going back. I guess that why in my dreams it’s never the same as it was.
Sort of reminds me of that new Toby Keith song – “I’m not as good as I once was."
Ain’t that the truth!
However age has its own rewards. A little bit of wisdom and experience is worth a wrinkle here, a wrinkle there. It’s even worth not being able to wait tables like a champ anymore.
Posted by Selena at August 15, 2005 09:41 PM