yentingyenta- i read some of your old post’s, you remind me of this story in Talmud Avodah Zorah 65 a-b
I will quote you the suitable parts of the story, you can fill in the unsuitable blanks (by googling it online).
Rava once sent a present to the local governor, Bar-Sheshak, on a pagan feast-day, saying, “I know that he does not worship idols,” but upon paying him a visit, he found him sitting up to his neck in a bath of rosewater while …………………………………………… Bar-Sheshak said to him, “Have you Jews anything this pleasurable in the World to Come?” Rava replied that the Jewish religion has even finer than this. Bar-Sheshak asked, “What can possibly be finer than this?” In response Rava answered that in the World to Come there will be no fear of the ruling power for Jews, while he still lives in fear of the ruling power. Bar-Sheshak argued that in his position as governor he has no fear of the ruling power.
While they were sitting together, the king’s courier arrived with the message, “Arise, the king requires your presence.” As he was about to depart – and recognizing how prescient Rava’s words had turned out to be – Bar-Sheshak said to Rava: “May the eye burst that wishes to see evil of you!'” To this Rava responded, “Amen,” and Bar-Sheshak’s eye burst.
you mentioned on a post you wear short sleeves, you seem to like the pleasures of this world, well like Bar Sheshak, you now have the ‘king’s courier’ arrive ‘with the message, “Arise, the king requires your presence.”-
As the commentators say every time King is mentioned in Esther, it means, Hashem, so to Hashem (metaphor for the American kingdom) is giving you a message, that he ‘run’s the show’, and you must obey his edicts, and in one second all your materialistic joys can end, as shown by your call up.