brewer12345
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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"Often, while supervising dry hills in the distance—they explode into green when the rains come—I wonder why people live as they do. In Washington the young go to law school, itself inexplicable, and then work twelve-hour days for many years so as to become partners at the noted firm of Linger, Loiter, and Dawdle. This seems to me a fate greatly to be avoided. They must have a reason for doing it. I just don’t know what it is. At the ends of their lives I suppose they can reflect that they saved Lockheed-Martin a great deal in taxes, and won an important suit over a municipal parking lot."
When I read stuff like this and TiogaRV's blog, I really have to wonder why I have chosen the life I did. I guess I did so because it was "expected", baked into society's expectations of me and I absorbed and internalized these expectations, especially through the educatory process. It was unthinkable to go through an elite high school and not continue on through a trajectory of socially approved "success".
Its all a moot point now, I guess. I made the choices I made and I have far too much invested in my current life to start over. Plus kids pretty much put paid to any flighs of fancy one might have, at least until I have sufficient capital to carry us regardless.
Quote:
"Often, while supervising dry hills in the distance—they explode into green when the rains come—I wonder why people live as they do. In Washington the young go to law school, itself inexplicable, and then work twelve-hour days for many years so as to become partners at the noted firm of Linger, Loiter, and Dawdle. This seems to me a fate greatly to be avoided. They must have a reason for doing it. I just don’t know what it is. At the ends of their lives I suppose they can reflect that they saved Lockheed-Martin a great deal in taxes, and won an important suit over a municipal parking lot."
When I read stuff like this and TiogaRV's blog, I really have to wonder why I have chosen the life I did. I guess I did so because it was "expected", baked into society's expectations of me and I absorbed and internalized these expectations, especially through the educatory process. It was unthinkable to go through an elite high school and not continue on through a trajectory of socially approved "success".
Its all a moot point now, I guess. I made the choices I made and I have far too much invested in my current life to start over. Plus kids pretty much put paid to any flighs of fancy one might have, at least until I have sufficient capital to carry us regardless.