Monday, March 09, 2009

..for you a thousand times over...






When I was 14, I hoped that one day I would have a girlfriend.
When I was 16 I got a girlfriend, but there was no passion, so I broke up with her.
In college I dated a passionate girl, but she was too emotional. Everything was an emergency; she was a drama queen, cried all the time and threatened suicide. So I decided I needed a girl with stability.
When I was 25 I found a very stable girl but she was boring. She was totally predictable and never got excited about anything. Life became so dull that I decided that I needed a girl with some excitement.
When I was 28 I found an exciting girl, but I couldn't keep up with her. She rushed from one thing to another, never settling on anything. She did mad impetuous things and made me miserable as often as happy. She was great fun initially and very energetic, but directionless. So I decided to find a girl with some real ambition
When I turned 31, I found a smart ambitious girl with her feet planted firmly on the ground and married her. She was so ambitious that she divorced me and took everything I owned
I am older and wiser now, and am looking for a girl with big tits.




a star dies in the sky every night
and every morning a new star is born.
It waits for the night to arrive so that it can be seen once again.




"...And given that millions of people find themselves locked into career choices they made when they were 16 years old, 'ultimately it is a miracle if it ever goes right', he says.
"I think it is amazing, it is genuinely a cause for wonder when you meet somebody and you know that this person has got a particular vocation and they found it and they are practising it and they are sucessful and they are happy. It is rather like seeing two people in love. It happens about as often, ie. two per cent of people one meets. It's odd, isn't it, that we live in this world where the two great fantasies are you will fall in love and you will find work that is fulfilling? I don't want to dismiss those fantasies, because i think they are really important and they are really productive even if they don't work, but you have to ask yourself, you know, the statistical probability."

interview with Alain de Botton
The Weekend Australian magazine (March 21-22)