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Be Stupid, Reckless and Shallow. It Pays Off.BY: Alessandro Saetta Vinci | Category: Self-Improvement | Submitted: 2011-05-18 08:13:15
A few years ago for Christmas, an aunt I can barely stand gave me a book. It was entitled "Four Friends" and I hated it. The cover was red and yellow, which is a worse combination than chocolate and mayonnaise, the book was vulgar and it was written by a Spanish, set in Spain and was about four Spanish friends. And I absolutely despise Spanish people. I don't like their accent, I don't like their football teams because even though it is true that right now FC Barcelona is the best team in the world the Liga offers absolutely no spectacle at all since it's always Real vs Barça. And then everybody else comes last far far behind. I don't like their cities, I don't like their food, I don't like their cars and my trip to Madrid e few years ago was absolutely the worst I ever had. People were rude and arrogant and impolite. It was awful. Still, even if I hated it, I finished the book in just two days and it got me thinking. Through the story, the main character explained how he used to break his favourite toys on purpose when he was a child. He explained that he only did so to prove himself strong. Those toys represented his happiness and he deemed that wrong because you can't be happy only because of something, you need to be able, according to him and therefore presumably according to the author's opinion, to be happy in any case. Quite frankly, that's bonkers. Because if this applies to childhood toys it means that, by reflection, it also applies to adult life, so what? You've worked hard to buy yourself a car? Good. Now break it into pieces. How mad is that? But it got me thinking because I realized that I'm like that too. I can't be bothered to be happy, I'd rather be nervous and uptight. Whenever I get a chance to be happy I sort of dribble it. I've consciously and willingly ruined many relationship for this reason. Of course, I told my friends that it was because she was way too involved and I wasn't, or vice versa. Sometimes I might have told them that it was because we were too busy or perhaps the relationship couldn't have continued because of "circumstances beyond our control". It's all rubbish. I severed more than one relationship solely because I didn't want to get used to happiness and I thought I'd have preferred a more challenging and more interesting "singletude" . I'm an idiot and I'm aware of that. Or am I? No, really. Am I? I've quit jobs, broke away from places and screwed relationship I was really happy with but, after an initial disappointment and sense of loneliness and despair, I always found something better. Some time ago I dumped a pretty and good girl for apparently no good reason at all, apart from her cheating on me obviously, and then I got me a model who speaks 5 languages. I gave up a secure job simply because I thought it was way too little for me and now I've three jobs, and I love one more than the other. The thing is, I think little and act much. I never stand still and I'm always on the move. And I'm never ever ever satisfied. I never have sparkling wine if I could have Champagne. Whenever I've got to rent or borrow a press car I never take the cheap, small, diesel one, but I always go for the fast and petrol powered one. I do recycle and I never drop litter but I don't give a flying fcuk about the environment because like I said before the world is more than healthy and has been here for about a billion years before us and knows how to care of itself more than we do, I therefore never take a slow and uncomfortable train just to save fuel or money. I never walk if I can run. Never float if I can swim. Never cruise if I can race. Be here now, don't waste time on nonsensical common sense. Spend stupidly, act recklessly, and as long as nobody gets hurt in any manner by your actions, do what you want. Don't stay in a tent if you can afford a 5 star. Don't aim at the first woman/man that seems to like you, aim at the best you could get. Occasionally, overrate yourself. Have your favourite beer not a cheap one, eat sushi not McDonald's just because that's cheaper. This way, you'll be stupid, constantly broke and most likely almost always drunk. But you'll be happy. And at the end of the day, that's all we're for. Article Source: http://www.writearticles.org/ About Author / Additional Info: Comments on this article: (0 comments so far)
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