Welcome to the Dharma Initiative
My husband, who initially hated the show, has suddenly become a huge “Lost” fan. He missed the first three seasons so we joined a movie club just so he could watch the early seasons and get caught up. We can’t watched them for free online here. Trust me we’ve tried and it just can’t be done.
Now he talks about “Lost” all the time. He acts like he knows the people. He wonders about what’s going to happen next at the dinner table. He wonders about what he would do if he were on the island. Sometimes he’ll see someone on the street and ask, “What if he were on the island?”
When I found these Dharma Initiative food labels online I thought it would be great to surprise him. He always eats a bowl of cereal late at night after a gig so I covered some food with the Dharma labels and put it in the cereal cabinet. When he got home I was so excited for him to see the labels, but I had mistakenly baked cookies that night so he didn’t eat any cereal.
That was fine. I could wait for the morning. I milled around the living room for a while waiting for him to fix breakfast the next morning. He was taking an unusually long time to get around to doing it that morning. It always happens like that when you’ve planned a surprise for someone. I kept wanting to say, “Aren’t you going to have breakfast?” I had to hold my tongue though because I didn’t want him to suspect anything.
When he finally opened the cabinet he said, “Where’s the cereal?” Then he closed the cabinet. Then he opened it again and said, “Why’d you buy all this Dharma food?” and closed the cabinet again. It was so uneventful. Then he opened the cabinet a third time and asked, “Where did this stuff come from?”
My husband is so caught up in the world of “Lost” that he’s lost track of reality. It took him a little while to register that the Dharma Initiative isn’t real and you can’t just buy that stuff at Sainbury’s.
Here is the link if you want to put some labels.
