I'd Rather Be...

You know those bumper stickers you see every once in a while? The ones that say something like, "I'd rather be flying," or "I'd rather be scuba diving?" I had a seminary teacher once that claimed they were a bunch of bull.

"If you would really rather be out fishing," he'd rant, "you would be. You have your agency; you can do what you want to do, whenever you want to do it."

Perhaps....But perhaps you are actually a responsible human being and even though you would rather be skiing, or whatever, you are in fact earning a living to put food on the table for your family, or running out to see that friend who is having a bad day, or whatnot. Perhaps you would rather be surfing but instead you have your priorities in order and are doing what is really important and not whatever you want to do.

So I guess when I say that, "I'd rather be at Fall Frenzy 2009" this weekend, you'll have to take that with a grain of salt. Would I really rather be hanging out at a water park listening to dozens of my favorite bands, getting a killer tan and cooling off in the pool, all the while trying not to go deaf or kill my unborn child by breathing in a ton of secondhand smoke or getting crushed myself by the mob of crazy drunkards who are sure to be there? Or would I rather be lying around at home with zero energy, sweating to death, and pretending I might go into labor any minute while my husband is off on a scout camp out? You be the judge.