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[cybermule]

article - "Culture of Discontent"

I quite like Alain de Botton - I keep meaning to transfer some of the notes I made from his "Art of Travel" to some slightly more permanent medium than backs of train tickets.

Too much work today. Too much work in general - I have to go on a whole bunch of courses and trips for work. Everyone else around here seems to love that sort of thing, whereas I view it as a bit of a drag. Not sure whether to feel ungrateful or not.

And in between I want to squeeze in at least one trip on my own. You can tell the stress is getting to me - I forgot to convert between Canadian dollars and £ when I was window-shopping. Not like me at all - if it had been real life, I would have missed the bargain *grins*

I want to go and see "21 Grams". I also want someone to come and finish my unwisely chosen vegetable juice for me. Ah well - here goes...

*gulps* :s

Comments

[psilobabe.livejournal.com]

I think its quite apt that the 'art of travel' notes are written on a train ticket!! :)

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

Hahah - that's true. I was accidentally cool!!! *grins*

I guess those little cardboard folders we get around the tickets here are useful for something...

[psilobabe.livejournal.com]

They are indeed despite being that horrible grey colour! :)

[unsane1.livejournal.com]

Excellent article. It should be required reading for the middle class. They need to be hit over the head and told they will never be millionaires, and that wealth is all in your mind.

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

Exactly. I like the writer, actually. Don't always agree with him, but he's very engaging. I read his book on the philosopjy of travel, and quite enjoyed it, whereas normally that sort of thing would grate on me.

[unsane1.livejournal.com]

So what was the moral of that story?

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

What, the philsophy of travel? I think it was that there are positive benefits of travel (intellectual, creative etc.), but that we should remember that it isn't a miracle cure for being ourselves :) There were lots of interesting tangents of things like art, happiness, people who wrote travel books about their own rooms. And those leads were the main benefit of the book - those "potted philosophy" books are kind of trite at times, but they're a good way of getting pointers to more interesting things :)