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Hi Guys,
I’m going to be in LA, San Francisco and San Diego from the 19th of December until New Years Day! If any of you guys who read my blog want to meet up for drinks, that would be so cool!
If so, you can send contact details to…
jevets01@gmail.com.
Let the good times roll! Dood!
“Hey Steve, want to go for a drink?” “Uh, no thanks. I’m tired and I have some work to do anyway. Sorry!”
“Hey, we are having a get together next week, you should come!” “Oh, sorry, I can’t, I’m er, …busy that day.” “But I haven’t told you which day its happening!” “Well, I mean I’m busy all week, I don’t think I could make it, I’m really sorry”
“Steve, we are going to London on Saturday for a day out. You should come”
“Ahh, I think there’s something I have to do Saturday, I just can’t remember what it is right now. Can I let you know later in the week? Cheers”
Ever found yourself saying any of the above? Of course you have, everyone gets invited to things they don’t want to or can’t attend for one reason or another. What’s more troubling however are those times when you find yourself taking a rain check when you have no real good reason to.
Fuck It!
I like these two word a lot. I especially like the first word (who doesn’t?), but I like Fuck It in particular when they join forces - oh and I love it when they come with the exclamation mark!
I like Fuck It! because amongst other things Fuck It! represents an almighty letting go of what we had previously been clinging on to so tightly - typically in the face of overwhelming evidence that we are wrong about the Way Things Are. Notice I capitalised that last phrase, and I did so deliberately. It deserve capitalisation because The Way Things Are is pretty fucking fundamental. You can’t argue with The Way Things Are, it just is that way. Sure, things will change and the Way Things Are right now will become the way things were (deliberately uncapitalised), but the Way Things Are will still be, well, The Way Things Are! You had better get used to it, because it’s all you have to work with. Fuck It! can help you to see that - actually Fuck It! is pretty much all you can say when you do see that!
The other reason I like the phrase Fuck It! is because it represents a Read the rest of this entry »
We will all get old, but one comforting thought you might have is that by then you should be able to look back on a life’s worth of memories. Memories of all those crazy things you got up to, the adventures you had, the achievements you worked hard for, the failures you suffered, the people you knew, the loves you won as well as those you lost - a vast and lifelong panorama of drama and adventure just waiting to be re-lived in your winter years.
But is this true? It seems to me that taken from the perspective of an Old You, life is all about making memories. It also seems to me that memories, or memorable events, seldom just arrive; you have to go out and claim them! Think about yourself at 90 and imagine what, so far, would that person have to look back on… Are you storing up an amazing and incredible legacy that can be looked back on with delight? Will the Old You truly be able to say “Yes! I have lived! And my word! How fantastic it all was!”
We all have moments when we get inspired. Moments when we feel we can turn things around; really makes a change in our lives. In those moments we discover new goals that inspire and motivate us. We start planning how we can satisfy those goals and our future seems deliciously ripe with promise. Unfortunately, over time we tend to drift away from those goals. Something happens so that they just don’t seem to be as compelling anymore. They lose their shine and slowly, day-by-day we get pulled back to our everyday life and before we know it, the goals have died and we are back to the status quo. Why is this the case?
How to make the world a better place? You could form a charity, or dedicate your life to finding a cure for cancer. Perhaps, organise or attend rallies to world peace. Maybe you could lobby your political representative to get us out of Iraq. All of these are great steps you can take to make the world a better place. But there’s also a bunch of simpler stuff we can all do. Easy, spontaneous small actions that we can take to improve the day of the people around us. A wonderful little book by Danny Wallace called Random Acts of Kindness lists many many such things and I’d like to share them with you here. Read the rest of this entry »
These are worrying times - apparently. You can’t go a day without hearing on the news or reading in the paper the latest shocking crime statistics. Only two days ago we heard that within a 24 hour period 5 people had been stabbed to death on the streets of Britain. Worrying indeed. Add to this the threat of suicidal terrorists, rampant, flesh eating hospital bugs, train crashes, hordes of child abductors and marauding gangs of feral youths, and you could be forgiven for refusing to set foot outside your door ever again.
But is this really the case? Just how dangerous is it to live in modern Britain? Is this really an epidemic of danger, or is it a media fuelled panic? Well, Lets take a different tack. Let’s suppose (in some weird, perverse way) you decided you had had enough of this dangerous and trauma intensive world, and you make the decision to end it all. But not in just any old, pop a skip load pills, throw yourself off a cliff way. No, you decide to go for a truly modern death. One that pays tribute, if you like, to the varied and many ways we are told we are likely to bite the bullet in modern day Britain. Read the rest of this entry »
