Dying young

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Having splattered chilli all over the microwave tonight it was my responsibility to clean it.

This microwave has been with me longer than I have known my wife. I should know by now that you need to cover food when inserting it in to the zappy box!

It would not be an understatement to say that my wife despises this item, it is not attractive by any standard far less her high water mark for aesthetically pleasing appliances. Thus it is consigned to the utility room out of eyesight.

Upon receipt of my redundancy settlement from my first real job I decided to use the money to furnish my recently purchased batchelor pad with appliances. Price was always going to be first above looks for these unwanted necessities so getting the maximum for minimum was the goal.

The microwave was a shop shelf model as was my stacking music system, as such they both came without packaging or guarantee but this was a chance worth taking. The music system was my first foray into the new world of compact discs and came with a remote that switched the power off with a very satisfying ‘clink’ noise.

It is odd to think of the changes in our lives that this little microwave has existed through, from pride of place in my first kitchen and the dubious creations that passed through it. To the baby bottles and first foods of our children and on faithfully to the daily re-heating of dinner for the late returning me from work of our current routine.

Of all our appliances this one is the least loved and most tolerated, the freezer grinds away noisily but looks shiny and silver, too many kettles and washers have come and gone from our lives over the years to mention and still this unloved but faithful oven just keeps going.

I am not in the least bit sentimental about things, when the day arrives for its last supper it will go to the tip and be replaced by a more pleasing box. I can’t help thinking, though, that it will go on not dying for some time yet.

The title of this blog was more ironic than anything else, we have purchased hundreds of electrical items in our married life. Some have lasted mere months, some have been useless, still others looked super cool and trendy only to die unceremoniously with not even a fizzle or pop.

I suppose if we can draw any conclusions from this unloved, hard working oven it would not be a profound one. The pop music culture celebrate youth and imagine that dying young would be preferable to living old, what they fail to realise is that steady silent uncelebrated lives make up the largest percentage of our world.

Those vacuous voices that are lauded today will be replaced tomorrow, the next pretty face will be along soon to satisfy the short attention spans of executives and audiences. Lives are expendable to the fickle consumers and if we do not succeed in loving ourselves while living unnoticed we will just chase a hollow applause that is ultimately meaningless.

 

 

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