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Monday, September 26, 2005
And then it struck me... 'it's a bit like life'
I'm at work, busy. You know: phone calls, paperwork, post-its, computers, "sell, sell, sell!", "you're fired!" and so on.
It's nearly time to go home (I usually call this 'home-time' but I get the impression this phrase doesn't suit me any more: I'm a big fat bearded office worker with a snagged tie and a sweat-stained M&S shirt).
So anyway, I used to eat sweets in the afternoon to keep me going. It's bloody tough getting through a day in an office. You can just about make it through the morning to lunch time becuase you had lunch time to look forward to. When you get back from lunch, the afternoon appears before you like a horizonless desert: how the hell are you going to get through it! My answer is sweets, and lots of them.
Well, it used to be at least. Now that I can barely get out of my chair, I've switched to nuts and raisins, the healthy option. So I have a big bag of mixed nuts and raisins on my desk and this keeps me going. Except that some of the nuts are horrible - I'm not sure which because I just grab handfuls. The nicest part of these handfuls is the raisins. So I've been picking out the raisins. And it suddenly dawned on me that this is a bit like life: I'm picking out all the good things (the raisins, which I like) and having them now, but leaving all the horrible things (the nuts, which I don't like) which will leave me faced with a load of horrible things (a snack supply consisting only of nuts). It's a metaphor, and I think it's rather neat.
I should have just bought a big bag of raisins, shouldn't I.
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