The (fourth or fifth) First Blog

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So I'm back again.

Granted that could be rather confusing for anyone other than myself seeing as this is in actual fact the first article that I have ever published, but if I can be so bold as to ask you to trust me at such an early stage within our strange relationship, I have indeed written many many articles, I have just actually never finished one.

I guess (okay, so I know), that quitting half way through something tells quite a bit about a person, but then we HAVE to ask ourselves, is it actually half way? I mean if you stop before you finished, you have absolutely 100% (times a million) no idea where the end actually is. Unless you already know how you want to end it OR if there is no end, in which case quitting half way through could be the end therefore removing not only the half way through, but replacing the quitting with finished...I forget what point I was trying to make anyway...if there was a point in the first place (which would mean I haven’t forgotten anything anyway etc etc).

Today I need your help. I need you to come up with my career. What the hell am I going to do with my life? I want a family. Yes yes okay, so everybody wants a family, but some people don’t, so I thought I would just put that out there. I want to be able to have enough money to do the things that I enjoy. Who doesn’t? More importantly I want my family to not have to worry about money. It is very easy to say well money doesn’t matter! You can be happy without money! Whoopdeedoo, yes we can have a jolly old time without money, but I don’t plan on playing thumb-wars and rock-paper-scissors until I die. It is therefore quite acceptable (in my eyes) to say that the things I want to do and like doing cost money.

There IS a conflict though, and I believe it comes down to three things; money, happiness and time. As fate has had it, these three things all seem to be in a perplexual state of war against each other. It’s like having Muhammad Ali, the KKK and Hitler all going at it in a caged boxing ring, with no gloves and with the audience not wanting any of them to be knocked out. If these is too confusing I will try to simplify it.

-If money gets knocked out, we go broke and nobody likes that, not even brokers
-If happiness gets knocked out, we all get unhappy. Apart from my old deputy head-master, I have never met anyone else who gained pleasure from witnessing unhappiness (oh the irony)
-If time unfortunately is finished...well I would like to not discuss death right at this present moment (not for any particular reason, I just don’t want to).

So as you can see, we have ourselves quite the problem. Somehow we have to juggle money, time and happiness and if we do it right, I personally believe this is how we end up living the "perfect life". Now before you get all jumpy and defensive, I am not saying that there is only one way to do this, no, no, these three ingredients measure differently for each person.

So I think now (if its okay, which it is because I am the one writing) I would rather leave my career aspirations for another day. Perhaps instead I will think for myself how my boxing match will turn out, and how (if there is a way) I will be able to look back on my life with satisfaction and leave with a smile knowing thats thats exactly what I wanted...although, that stage is far...far...away