Ambition
Firstly - Merry Christmas everybody.
I have had many a long conversation with a friend of mine about the virtues of love, the need and the desire. And after many a long converatsion over the course of 3 years usually involving plenty of vodka we concluded that it is one of the most desirable places to be (in love) but far too hard to come by.
This friend of mine decided there are two goals in life.
1. Find someone whom you love and loves you back.
2. Make a success of your career and as a by product make a shit load of money.
After much deliberation I bought into this philosophy and concluded that of the two goals there is only one worth aiming for. This is the later. You cannot guarantee love for yourself and no one can deliver on your behalf, as you cannot get it delivered on request. But you can almost guarantee yourself a successful career and a nice salary/wage packet to boot (unless you are a feck and in which case fuck off).
I have therefore been getting my head down (so to speak) in the last few months and vying for individual gold which we can all aim for and some of us can achieve. I have personally written off the chance of finding true love again, as I was there before and it is far too fucked leaving me Jaded and bitter on all fronts.
However, secretly I believe the stance I have taken which has rekindled a confidence within myself not seen for many years will probably end up with the double decker bus of love smashing me in the face at some point while I am not looking and leaving me helpless to try and avoid the bastard. It is inevitable and highly probable but not this day, maybe tomorrow.
JYS
I have had many a long conversation with a friend of mine about the virtues of love, the need and the desire. And after many a long converatsion over the course of 3 years usually involving plenty of vodka we concluded that it is one of the most desirable places to be (in love) but far too hard to come by.
This friend of mine decided there are two goals in life.
1. Find someone whom you love and loves you back.
2. Make a success of your career and as a by product make a shit load of money.
After much deliberation I bought into this philosophy and concluded that of the two goals there is only one worth aiming for. This is the later. You cannot guarantee love for yourself and no one can deliver on your behalf, as you cannot get it delivered on request. But you can almost guarantee yourself a successful career and a nice salary/wage packet to boot (unless you are a feck and in which case fuck off).
I have therefore been getting my head down (so to speak) in the last few months and vying for individual gold which we can all aim for and some of us can achieve. I have personally written off the chance of finding true love again, as I was there before and it is far too fucked leaving me Jaded and bitter on all fronts.
However, secretly I believe the stance I have taken which has rekindled a confidence within myself not seen for many years will probably end up with the double decker bus of love smashing me in the face at some point while I am not looking and leaving me helpless to try and avoid the bastard. It is inevitable and highly probable but not this day, maybe tomorrow.
JYS
posted by Anonymous | 11:10 am
TG: 10 on 10 for spotting the bleedin' obvious.
Anti-Love? The site's called Love Is A Cunt, dear... You're right, however, being in love is all well and good when it's with the Right Person. But when finding the Right Person means burrowing through a pile of festering corpses with naught but your own teeth, then it's a traumatising experience that one would like to call a Cunt.
Maybe you're in love and have a great Boyfriend to be The Girlfriend of - whoopee shit. We're all very happy. But, you know, there are a tonne of us misers for every one of you happy-go-luckies.
And you'll be very happy-go-lucky if you aren't joining us in the mass grave of love at some point. So keep those teeth sharp, it's corpse eat motherfucking corpse in here.
Merry Christmas Jaded!
It's getting hot in here...
The love-life-work balance. Hmm. A tricky one. My strategy has always been to throw myself into work when my love life is shit, and throw myself into love when work is shit.
By the way, I love this quote:
"... will probably end up with the double decker bus of love smashing me in the face at some point while I am not looking and leaving me helpless to try and avoid the bastard"
Excellent. Spoken like the true advocate of LIAC that you are!
Merry Christmas JYS!
Whilst you can always throw yourself into work when love is shit, you can't 'just do' the opposite. What does that even mean?
Jaded is right, you cannot be sure about love whilst your career will be there until you retire. That is NOT to say that career is more important - it is simply more reliable.