In the matter of education she tripped merrily along in the
groove to which I’ve made mention recently. She did her degree in Commerce and
Law because that’s a fairly safe bet if you want a reasonably prosperous
existence and the lifestyle trappings which come with it. The problem is that
she’s not really the groove type. She’s a free-spirited, adventurous type who now
spends so much time withering in the heat of the corporate kitchen that she doesn’t
have the time to smell roses, dance on poles, woo handsome young dudes in Argentina, climb
mountains, and muse on the big existential questions as is her wont.
So now I’m about to send her birthday greetings and I’m
unsure whether to point out (from experience, you understand) that youth is
very short and very precious, and that maybe it’s an awful shame to waste it on
building a career which will bring merely lifestyle benefits and security in
old age. After all, how do any of us know whether we’ll even get an old age?
And given the apparent threat of global catastrophe through climate change, how
can any of us know whether money will be worth very much in thirty or forty
year’s time?
I think I probably will. If she finds my view unpalatable,
presumptuous, or just plain wrong, no doubt she’ll ignore me as she always
does.
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