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Loading ...It’s like in Happy Gilmore Will. You have to find your own happy place. Harmy’s I imagine would be curled up in the foetal position in front of the fire in his house. Symond’s is probably wrestling the pig from Razorback armed with a plastic spoon and a toothpick.
‘He’s in a good place’ – oh toss off
By Will 2 years ago, mid-November Add your comment below
Right. I need some help. Over the past 12 months or so, the phrase “he’s in a good place” has sprung up like a particularly virilent form of hospital super bug and it’s resisting every fathomable disinfectment. It’s everywhere. Steve Harmison has been described as “in a good place” ever since he returned to the England side, and now Andrew Symonds has also joined him in this happy sphere of goodness. Form counts for nothing these days, despite what Peter Moores bangs on about (“yeah. He’s looking a million dollars in the nets”). It’s all about how happy they are; whether they’re in their special, good place.
Where is it, and how do you gain entry? Answers on a postcard, or ideally in the comments below.
Tags: andrew-symonds, cliche, cliches, he's in a good place, Peter-Moores, steve-harmison |
5 Responses to “‘He’s in a good place’ – oh toss off”
November 19th, 2008 at 4.31 am
November 19th, 2008 at 12.13 pm
Therapy is all about metaphors, ideally ones that people can share. The more abstract the metaphor, the more people can share it. Think of the two most abstract metaphors available: time and space.
You would be able to use both of them… except that the first is never metaphorical, in the context of therapy. If, for example, you say the words ‘in the past I felt my toes go numb every time Shane Warne was tossed the ball’, you actually mean ‘in the past’. There’s nothing metaphorical about it, and never can be, because you remember the feeling quite distinctly.
Far better to say that there are two metaphorical places, one in which your toes go numb every time Shane Warne is tossed the ball, and one in which they don’t. It’s just a question of moving from one to the other. You’re no longer in the actual realm of traumatic memory that you can’t ditch, and enter the metaphorical realm of a traumatic space that you can depart from.
QED
November 19th, 2008 at 10.50 pm
I have been in an excellent place all evening. It is called the pub.
November 19th, 2008 at 11.12 pm
I think “a good place” is where you are when you put the ball in “the right areas”.
November 20th, 2008 at 9.18 pm
Are the “right areas” just “back of a length”?
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