Be it as Bus Driver or Brain Surgeon.

When I hear the Establishment figures, the mealy-mouthed managers, the doyens of the corporate world, and the self-righteous educationalists all talking of aspiration and achievement, success and superiority in that arid way they are wont to do, I find it quite disturbing. It all sounds so blinkered to me.

It seems that those who presume to tell us what life is about and how we must go about living it ignore the basic fact that life is fundamentally a matter of travelling from birth to death enjoying the pleasures and coping with the pains along the way. And if you can have more pleasures on that journey, and if you can learn something from the pains, that’s the only success you need. How you go about doing it really doesn’t matter.