I get snacky every afternoon around 4:00 pm. What does this mean? It means that I want to eat. I want to eat something crunchy, salty and delicious. I’m not looking for fruit or anything of the sort – in fact, if it’s healthy, I don’t want a bar of it.
Most of the time, I’m able to step away from my desk and grab something to eat. But on the odd occasion when I’m not able to go and grab something to eat, my mind goes wild. Yesterday I was stuck in an afternoon meeting and so I couldn’t go and get my regular 4:00 pm snack. It was so agonising that I ended up fantasising about making a movie all about food.
I fully imagined myself hiring a company specialising in video production near the Melbourne CBD to make a video about how great snacks are. It would be a really arty, potentially confusing video which would get more and more disorienting as the hours go by. That would accurately reflect how I’m feeling better than I could ever explain. My slow demise into craziness would be clear to the audience. I’m not entirely sure who the audience would be (this is not a thought-out plan by any stretch of the imagination), but I’m sure the audience would really enjoy it. I mean, I’d enjoy it if I were them.
Now that I think about it, maybe I would be the only audience member. Would I want anyone to see my inner workings and understand me on such a level? I’m not sure. Now that I think about it, I’m probably leaning more towards a no. I don’t even know if I want the video animation company that I’ve imagined myself choosing to know just how out of sorts my mind gets when I haven’t had a snack.
Maybe I’ll just table this idea (ha, get it – because you eat snacks on a table) for a few weeks.