In Other Words

Back at work

Hurrah. Back at work. Well, at least there is one advantage to it all, it means I’m healthier then I was previously. Actually had another sick day signed by the doctor I saw yesterday, but decided not to take it. Decided two days away was enough and I’m hoping that someone, somewhere, will notice that I could have taken a day off and didn’t. ‘Look at his dedication, wanted to get back before the doctor advised it!’ Yeah right.

Anyways, I have a theory that we should, somehow, figure out a way to simultaneously make the entire world population lazier. It would be brilliant! Since everybody would be working less there would be no consequences of us all working less, plus unemployment would drop, because more people would be needed to do the same amount of work.

True, the cost of living would go up, seeing as anything that requires man hours would become ten percent more expensive, but live expectancy would also rise, and the need for medical care would drop (as stress is a major contributor to illness), so it would balance itself out, with lower premiums on insurance and all that.

I’m still most confused by this ‘drive for cash’ that everybody has gotten into their system. What? Does that Rolex really make people happier? ‘Yeah, my wife left me and my daughter is closer to the milkman, then to me, but at least I’ve got two houses, that will cheer me up! That way the people that have stopped loving me can get even further away from my miserable existence!

Of course, just like everybody else I’ll probably find myself infected with the ‘me need mo money’ bug sooner or later. I just hope its later, a lot later, when I’m living on one of the last islands that hasn’t been turned into a tourist resort, living like a king of a grand total of 20 dollars a day. Writing travel articles and books, from my hammock. It will infect me and I’ll go ‘oh, I need more money’ but then, because I’m far too comfortable in my hammock and can’t reach the phone (as that would require moving my hand all of three inches) it will pass and I will say “those people in the first world, they’ve got it all wrong. Money doesn’t make happy, just like happy doesn’t make money. They should say money doesn’t /need/ happy, just like happy doesn’t need money.”

posted by Symbol @ 9.6.04