Tag: life

Follow your dreams…but what dreams?

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Sylvie had, has, the voice of an angel.  The sort of voice that you hear in your dreams.  I met her at University and even in her late teens, when she sang it would lift your soul, or bring you to laughter, or tears.  Sometimes it would do all three in the course of five…

By Caveman March 10, 2020 5
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A Perfect Day: What I aspire to after Financial Independence

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‘Just a perfect day Problems all left alone Weekenders on our own It’s such fun’ Lou Reed, Perfect Day Lou Reed’s 1972 masterpiece sprung to mind when I saw Saving Ninja’s thought experiment this month.  A perfect day.  He asked: “What do you need to achieve real, true happiness? What are you aspiring to?” Big…

By Caveman August 15, 2019 4
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Why I would love to lose my job

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OK I’m going to put up front that I think that I’m going to come across as a bit of a tool in this post. More than a bit actually. Today is all about why I would really like to lose my job. I know. What a privileged, oblivious, idiot. For most people losing their…

By Caveman May 9, 2019 24
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“Do you want an inheritance or do you want a cruise?” Can money buy happiness?

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The crowd was so silent that we could hear a gull calling overhead. Tension scrawled across every face. Our final player stepped up and, without hesitation, struck. The disc slid across the deck and landed on a seven. We threw our hands up in the air. The victorious shuffleboard player walked over to the kids. …

By Caveman April 26, 2019 21
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For tomorrow we shall die! (But alas we never do)

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I’m old enough to remember when the Poems on the Underground first started. They were little pockets of surprise interspersed between adverts for cold remedies and time shares (yeah they were a big thing back in the day). They were short poems, or snippets of poems,designed to make you smile, or think, or just distract…

By Caveman November 15, 2018 13
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