'...in another life, I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you.' ~ From the movie Everything Everywhere All at Once

I haven't seen the movie. And I believe the context of this quote is very different in the movie. But something about this quote struck me emotionally from the first time I read it. Sometimes I have chewed on it, as if something about it is delicious. It may not seem that way—or maybe it does and I don't know?—that I have a very romantic side to me. It's not probably what one generally associates with romantic—the very over-the-top, splashy, shouting-from-the-rooftops sort of thing. No, that's not my thing, nothing over-the-top or loud about my kind of romantic. Like everything else about me, it's about the depth. It is probably only visible to the one it is expressed to in my quaint ways and if they are the kind who also values depth. From this vantage point, there is something very delicious about the quote. I paint a story in my own imagination around it which is easy since I haven't seen the movie. I imagine two people who cannot really unite in this life, but they sometimes dream about what it would be like, if they could. And that's where maybe, you the reader, will find it hard to imagine with me. They dream about what it would be like to do the mundane things together. Like laundry and taxes. I find that delicious! Not things like going on vacations or having adventures together. Nothing out of the ordinary. Just the everyday stuff. They dream about what it would be like doing the most ordinary stuff together in perfect silence and unspoken harmony. Which hides a lot more passion that any loud proclamation. That feels so deliciously romantic to me somehow!