Saturday, November 19, 2005

TO SOME EXTENT, I SUPPOSE, BUT...


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Excuse us, could you just put down that hammer for a minute and listen. You’re so busy getting things done you rarely take any time out just to relax. In fact, you’ve probably forgotten how to relax. That’s because you’re so anxious to prove that it’s possible to lead a good and moral life without religion that you have built a strict and forbidding creed all of your own.

You keep a compost heap, cycle to the bottle bank, invest in ethical schemes only and the list of countries you won’t buy from is longer than the washing line for your baby’s towelling nappies. You admire uncompromising self–sacrificers like Aung San Suu Kyi and Che Guevara, and would have liked the chance to be incarcerated for your principles like Diderot or Nelson Mandela.

You would never cheat on your partner, drink and drive, accept bribes or touch drugs. You never waste money though you give lots to charity. Living a good life? You’re a model to us all. But it wouldn’t hurt you to try a little happiness once in a while. Loosen up.
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The last paragraph starts off all wrong. Or maybe it's the new me coming out.

4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

The last paragraph doesn't seem right either...

4:29 p.m.  
Blogger hold steady said...

Good to see your back on your blog. How about some updates? Pics?

8:25 p.m.  
Blogger Dr. Fatty said...

Oh, you got that right.

7:23 p.m.  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Seems about half right for you. I would describe you as being simultaneously the most uptight and yet most unwound person I've ever met - a big brown paradox of sorts. Righteously denouncing the self-righteousness of others. Or running to stand-still, as Bono once put it. You'll believe in everything, if I believe in anything.

2:49 p.m.  

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