THOUGHTS ACCORDING TO CHAIRPERSON ALPHA

AlphaButtonPusher is one of my very favourite people: she has a unique outlook on life, and her posts are always thought-provoking. I left one of my famously long-winded comments on one of her posts, and she suggested I make it a post in itself (I know she was pulling my leg, but I thought What the hell). So here you are:

Alpha's original post:

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• If you are reading this then this warning is for you. 
• Every word you read of this useless fine print is another second off your life. 
• Don't you have other things to do? 
• Is your life so empty that you honestly can't think of a better way to spend these moments? Or are you so impressed with authority that you give respect and credence to all that claim it?
• Do you read everything you're supposed to read?
• Do you think every thing you're supposed to think?
• Buy what you're told to want?
• Get out of your apartment.
• Meet a member of the opposite sex.
• Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation.
• Quit your job. Start a fight.
• Prove you're alive.

Here's my answer - this post made me think, and made me want to respond (I don't do either very often):

"...But in deference to my advanced age and grey hairs, let me answer thusly:

• I AM my job - artist, designer, A-grade Worrier
• I'm definitely what money we have in the bank - we'r always one step away from the breadline.
• We don't even have a car! (then again, in London you don't actually need one, and if you had it there isn't anywhere to park the thing)
• For contents of wallet, see remark about money & bank
• Do I read everything? Nope - probably why I'm often in trouble
• My thoughts are definitely my own (bloshie and argumentative)
• Buy what I'm told? No... but I'm a sucker for the latest art materials I see demonstrated, and I just got talked into buying the new Serif Photoplus programme... so maybe Yes...
• Married to member of opposite sex
• Can no longer afford it, and... puhleeese.. I'm 57... well over THAT kind of thing
• Quit? Well, I quit the day job around 10 years ago. Quit this one? No - it's my raison de'etre.
• I think I'm alive - I was last time I looked.

Excellent post, very thought provoking - and now you get windy comments from old farts like me!..."


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