High Maintenance Joy

I love words.  Word play, word games, talking, writing, I just love words!  When I took Library Science and discovered The Oxford English Dictionary I was in heaven.  I spent hours sitting on one of those little scooting stools in the library pouring through those volumes.

The idea that a word could be traced back to its beginnings fascinated me.  It made me wish I could read and speak Latin and all the other languages so I could really examine these things.

Still I tend to use words in unusual ways.  Not because I don't know the official use, but because I can't find another word that works.

Last night I discovered high maintenance joy!   More of a phrase than a word and certainly not something I carefully made up.  It just popped out while I was talking with a friend. 

What is it?  It is what happens when a person discovers they are busier than ever and happier than ever doing things that make another happy.  It's not codependent, or enabling, it is total reciprocity. 

It happens when two people have huge needs.  Other people might find them exhausting after a while, but when they discover each other, they find that other half, the part that needs to give what they need.  Like two endless wells pouring into each other.

In a momentary need to give it a name I called it high maintenance joy! 

A new phrase and I was there at the moment of its birth.