For when's it ever been worth it? I ask myself. And then I ignore the question because I already know the answer. But then, life's like that. These are the things we have to deal with. Yet, despite all this, life's not so bad, once you get over the living. Breathing's the hardest part,and after that it's all a piece of cake... or death. You see? The moon was pretty tonight, and the sky was cold and clear, and sometimes that should just be enough. Sometimes that should make it alright.
And sometimes it does.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Monday, January 21, 2008
Total Perspective Vortex
It's all about perspective. And I mean 'it' man. The proverbial it. Dean Moriarty's 'it' in On the Road. The 'it' that we're all getting with. You can have £300 essentially stolen from you by your flatmate and be left with two phone contracts you don't want in your name, all because you're a naive fool who believes in the best of man, and you can dwell on it and think how terrible and cruel the world is and what things you could have done with that money. What things man! Wild and wonderful things. And I've done that. I've had the pit in my stomach and the constant, why didn't I just avoid the situation when it first happened? And the answer to that, is that I'd have wanted someone to do the same for me.
But I'm realizing there's an alternative to that. I can stop spending money and think to recoup my losses, or I could tell myself that it's just money and it might as well be spent. Both of which I've done. I've avoided going out for drinks to save a few pounds, and then I've turned around and bought a traditional Turkish instrument, a bagalama, whilst on holiday. Just so I could shake my fist at the gods of money and say, this is what I think of your false idols. And who's to say what the best option is? All I know, and I keep trying to convince myself of this, is that, in the grand scheme of things, it's just money. And I don't live for money. So I'll thank the sender of the following quote, and pass the same wave on to all of you. For we, have got it good.
*A smiling happy Emily gives Dave a jolly big wave, because if you've got change in your pocket, you're in the top percentile of rich people in the world*
But I'm realizing there's an alternative to that. I can stop spending money and think to recoup my losses, or I could tell myself that it's just money and it might as well be spent. Both of which I've done. I've avoided going out for drinks to save a few pounds, and then I've turned around and bought a traditional Turkish instrument, a bagalama, whilst on holiday. Just so I could shake my fist at the gods of money and say, this is what I think of your false idols. And who's to say what the best option is? All I know, and I keep trying to convince myself of this, is that, in the grand scheme of things, it's just money. And I don't live for money. So I'll thank the sender of the following quote, and pass the same wave on to all of you. For we, have got it good.
*A smiling happy Emily gives Dave a jolly big wave, because if you've got change in your pocket, you're in the top percentile of rich people in the world*
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