Celestial Joy

Nick relaxes by doing stuff....
Leeches such as myself greatly benefit from this as you will see in the following description of a typical lazy chill-out evening.

Fellow slouch and I sitting on the couch while Nick cooks up yummy dinner, us sitting on the couch while Nick makes yummy pudding, me playing with golly, fellow slouch thinking about the Olympics or Smashing Pumpkins, whilst sitting on the couch and Nick in the kitchen making yummy drinks...
This sounds terrible and yes I am a lazy bugger but for all my protesting (which admittedly isn't that much) Nick claims that partaking in this culinary slavery is his equivalent to sitting on the couch.

I must say this is a tad worrying to idlers such as myself. It's just beyond my comprehension and things I don't understand make me nervous. Many a whispered conversation I have had with fellow slouch, fretting over our and Nicks roles in this scenario. But you can't say he doesn't look happy. In fact, Nick has such a serene look of peace and celestial joy whilst pottering around creating yummyness that it almost makes us slouchers a bit jealous of his found nirvana. Suddenly the couch looks kind of shabby from where we're sitting, surveying the shaft of light beaming down upon Nicks head through the kitchen window (even more impressive given it's night) and faintly picking out the cascading notes of the heavenly choir emanating across the room.

What's his secret? How does one maintain that much enthusiasm for and enjoyment of the possibilities of creativity and what can be achieved with a few pine nuts, mozzarella cheese and a bag of ice from the dairy up the road. And culinary delights is only one of his many creative outlets "I guess I gotta keep creating or I'll just die" - Jarrod

My fellow slouch has a theory that we are sum equals of all the people we have ever met. That everyone, from the people who raised us, to friends, to the person you talked to on the bus, all influence who we are - rub off on us a little. I hope this is true 'cos I wouldn't mind getting a bit of what Nicks got. I think that would make me a very lucky sloucher indeed.