3 posts tagged “life”
I haven't posted for eons.
That's what happens when you suddenly start something new. The old things get left behind.
It is a lot like a relationship. You meet, fall in love, can't leave each other alone and no one wants to say goodbye on the phone. All you want to do is snuggle up and watch the flames of your log fire of love. Tea and crumpets anyone?
Do you remember that feeling?
God Knows I do.
Then the days turn into months and the months into years and before you know it you are watching Simon Cowell every night and a pint of beer and a night on the town aren't so appealing anymore.
You develop opinions on curtains and soft furnishings and a wave of apathy rolls over you if anyone mentions anything that isn't related to nesting.
Then come the babies and total obsession.
That's 5 years in a muddy bubble of spew, poo and insomnia.
Gradually you emerge.
Greyer, poorer and weary.
Life isn't so appealing now and there isn't much to do that you haven't already done. Or so it seems.
Then you gradually find yourself again. Heart beats faster. Head feels stronger and ambition reasserts itself.
That's when you realise that you are still part of the rat race and the dreaded mid life crisis hits.
Some of us start to stray. Women in particular are looking for the rose covered cottage and that "dream hunk" who will shower them with flowers and love. Men just want a great pair of pins, a functional prostate and pneumatic tits.
Twas ever thus.
But if you don't fancy a $100 meander down the erotic encounters personal ads what do you do?
You look in the mirror. Gird your ever depleted loins and enagage in something new and invigorating.
You can be a parachute instructor or a horse wrangler; a fire appliance salesman or an arms dealer; you may like the idea of starting as a chocolatier or an alternative therapist. No matter. The trick is to start as you mean to go on and to hell with Ben and the Federal reserve; to hell with Bush, Blair, Obama and Brown; to hell with the news and the things you can never change; to hell with all the waste and wonder of the earlier years. Now is your time!
This is the era of re-invention and acting locally to effect globally.
You are the key to it all.
Whatever you want to do get on with it before the man with the sythe comes knocking and you wonder what you have been doing for the past 70 years.
Don't bleat about what might have been.
Just do it.
Life is for living.
So love it, live it, sod it!
We all end up the same way. It is what you do whilst you are here that counts.
Have a nice day!
Phew! Do I have a lot to tell you about.
Except I am not going to tell you now.
Later. Promise.
I can tell you that 2 months after we got married Mrs B and I have finally got ourselves a honeymoon!!!
We are going to Iceland. Without the nippers, for a whole week.
Sun, sea, sharks, slumber.
Well, maybe no sun but I am told the putrefied shark and puffins are worth eating
Can't wait!
I have also 99% withdrawn from the music business at last.
I still love it - off to a show in London tomorrow as it happens, but I just can't face the hangovers anymore.
Full details soon.
Meanwhile here are a couple of clips. The first one was on Pertermcc blog.
Cheers Mac!
Keep smiling!
I have for you two words - number one word "buzz" ....when background static starts to become a hum and then a rhythm and then tune
Number two - Interest.
That's the key to everything.
Do you have any interest?
If you can't be bothered then there you haven't any interest.
If you have no money then you won't collect any interest.
The fascinating thing about the word is that you can only be interesting if you already have a interest of some form.
"WHAT THE HELL IS HE ON ABOUT NOW?" I hear you cry. Well , if you will indulge me I will explain.
Interest is a noun that can be used in many ways but in essence the value of it all boils down to the same thing. DOES ANYONE CARE?
If they do and they are prepared to use some of their limited heartbeats in pursuing the object of their desire then it is of interest and will by association accrue the same.
This is important because the more people care the more interest is generated and the more interest is generated the more people care. Got me?
It is called a positive feedback cycle and it is how everything develops and grows.
Mathematicians can work out feedback cycles and they can calculate the effect of changes in interest. What is really interesting (sorry) is that you can also measure that effect on the way you see yourself.
In terms of your life you can see that, if you are a person who has interest in the world around you, and in events that happen to others, your own value is increased. eg. The last person you want to see is the dullard who does nothing but watch TV and eat KFC right? But the guy who is a "jet setter" is intrinsically interesting because his life experience is something that you would like to have yourself.
That's why movie stars and pop singers are objects of fascination.
So what is more useless than a pop singer that never tours?
A chocolate fireguard perhaps?
Believe it or not Karl Marxs - yes he of the big beard and creation of communism - had this off pat - he called it the stupidity of the rural village. In other words, the less you knew the less you were able to know and therefore the less you were told.
Now if you take that idea forward and then look at how interest is seen in a financial market you can see that the same rules apply.
Every single one of us has an interest in interest rates.
Your house, your money, your job - they all depend on interest rates being set at a reasonable level for your country.
So what happens when things here get into a big mess?
This time the result is not just a fat, boring old fart sitting on a couch with nothing to say. This time it means that you loose your job and then your house and then your reason to live.
"BUT I CAN"T DO ANYTHING ABOUT THAT CAN I"
Well, believe it or not you can.
There are two ways:
First you get involved in politics and shape how other act and react and that in turn will affect the perceptions of bankers who set interest rates and suddenly you have made a difference.
Second you get busy and stop letting your country of birth or residence dictate who and what you are.
For example -
If you are born in Zimbabwe you currently live with 2500% inflation, starvation and a generally shit life.
OPTIONS: Leave, do nothing or change it.
You are born and live in the USA. The housing market has collapsed, your currency is falling and every other country hates you.
OPTIONS; Get involved and change it or do nothing or leave.
You are born in the UK, there are loads of jobs and lots of money about but you can't afford to buy a tiny apartment.
OPTIONS: see above.
Notice anything about this? Well, no matter where you are you have 3 options and only one of them means that you are going to come out of it a winner. GET INVOLVED AND CHANGE THINGS!
Leaving is nice option but unless you are already in a strong position you are going to be much worse off by emigrating. Countries that will take you are limited and generally a lot worse than your own. Would you emigrate to Zimbabwe?
So the way to better yourself and your life is to gather interest - both in your self and in others.
The code that you need to break is the code that has been instilled in you since birth. The code of conduct.
If you can't break that code you will never make a change and your future will be pre-ordained. From Cradle to Grave you will fit into little boxes made up by an actuary somewhere.
You will have spend 70 years taking up space and achieving bog all.
Don't do it.
Make a change.
Crack the code.
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