All recovered post.
So, I am 100% better now, and it’s my Friday evening, so I don’t really have any excuses left for not posting anything.I am happily listening to a student’s CD at the moment, he gave it to me on Friday after I mentioned that I was leaving. It is his CD as in he is the artist, not as in it’s his copy of Britney’s latest…
The CD is The Three Semicircular Canals, and the band is Hypercube. Go buy their stuff if you can, Ken shouldn’t have to spend his weekdays as a salary-man anymore, it’s not suited to him at all.
I guess my conversation with him on Friday got me back to thinking about how people choose to live their lives.
I’d love to know what proportion of people would say they are entirely happy with all their decisions and priorities in life at any given time. How many are convicing themselves they will get around to all the good stuff later? How many people have an achievable dream that they are convinced just can’t be realized?
Over and over people tell me they want my life, people from all sorts of different circumstances. I don’t know how serious these statements are, but they often seem quite sincere.
I can’t think of many lives I’d prefer to mine, and if I do at any time come across one, I tend to just begin planning how Patrick and I are going to fit that type of life into the one we have going now.
Are Patrick and I merely unbelievably lucky? Are we naive? Lazy? Greedy? … Or are we doing something others have missed?
I enjoy dreaming, and know that the grass is definitely always greener… so understand that quite a few of the people saying “I wish I could do that..” are just having a little dream for a minute, and then will quite happily go back to what it was they were doing.
Does seem an unhealthy number actually really do want to change their situation. What is it that separates us from them?
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