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I think, although I'm only very young, that I've learned some valuable life-lessons that some people seem not to learn until very late in life, if at all. There are two that I've been thinking a lot about lately and I wanted to share them here.
♥ Okay, technically this is a theory rather than a lesson I've learned, but get back to me in 60 years and see how it went: I think that maybe never viewing yourself as "complete", "grown up", "set in your ways", etc, is the key to staying forever young. It irks me to no end when people say things like "I can't get my nose pierced, I'm too old" or "She's just set in her ways, let her be racist". If when I'm 80 I want to get my nose pierced, I fucking will. And no one is "set in their ways" - you can always change, you can always be better and this is no excuse to not bother trying. I'll never be complete. I'll always want to improve, to try new things. And I think I'll always be young.
♥ "Money wont make you happy, and happy wont make you money" - Groucho Marx (comedian). Having grown up working-class, I've always thought that if I had more money, I could buy more things and be happy. But here's the thing: the more you have, the more you have to lose. Now, I do a lot of op-shopping and thus have a lot of (really fucking cool) stuff ... But that's just it: It's only "stuff". If I were to lose it all and had to sleep on the floor, that would be fine as long as I could afford to feed myself and my rats every day and keep a roof over my head - but even that isn't neccessary! Who in a city has starved or frozen to death recently? Even if I couldn't go back to my parents or to my friends, there are charities and homeless centers. The point is, a rich man who lives in a castle and has three private jets is just as likely to lose everything he has as me (a chick who lives from pay-check to pay-check). But he loses more - and, more importantly, both of us can be happy right at the bottom of society. And even if I became rich and/or famous: look at all the celebrities and millionairs who kill themselves, either suddenly or slowly with drugs and alcohol. I don't want to need those things to get by. All I want is to enjoy my life. I want to be rich in friends and in resources. So I'm pretty happy to sit here just above the bottom, and stay here my whole life.
♥ What do you think? Maybe you could share some of your own gems?
♥ Okay, technically this is a theory rather than a lesson I've learned, but get back to me in 60 years and see how it went: I think that maybe never viewing yourself as "complete", "grown up", "set in your ways", etc, is the key to staying forever young. It irks me to no end when people say things like "I can't get my nose pierced, I'm too old" or "She's just set in her ways, let her be racist". If when I'm 80 I want to get my nose pierced, I fucking will. And no one is "set in their ways" - you can always change, you can always be better and this is no excuse to not bother trying. I'll never be complete. I'll always want to improve, to try new things. And I think I'll always be young.
♥ "Money wont make you happy, and happy wont make you money" - Groucho Marx (comedian). Having grown up working-class, I've always thought that if I had more money, I could buy more things and be happy. But here's the thing: the more you have, the more you have to lose. Now, I do a lot of op-shopping and thus have a lot of (really fucking cool) stuff ... But that's just it: It's only "stuff". If I were to lose it all and had to sleep on the floor, that would be fine as long as I could afford to feed myself and my rats every day and keep a roof over my head - but even that isn't neccessary! Who in a city has starved or frozen to death recently? Even if I couldn't go back to my parents or to my friends, there are charities and homeless centers. The point is, a rich man who lives in a castle and has three private jets is just as likely to lose everything he has as me (a chick who lives from pay-check to pay-check). But he loses more - and, more importantly, both of us can be happy right at the bottom of society. And even if I became rich and/or famous: look at all the celebrities and millionairs who kill themselves, either suddenly or slowly with drugs and alcohol. I don't want to need those things to get by. All I want is to enjoy my life. I want to be rich in friends and in resources. So I'm pretty happy to sit here just above the bottom, and stay here my whole life.
♥ What do you think? Maybe you could share some of your own gems?
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Finally! I scored a great place with a local artist, Yvette, who I interviewed for a year 12 assignment a few years ago - lol! I was bludging from looking for a house, checking facebook, and there it was: a note on her profile about how she needed a house mate!! It's a fucking stella deal too. I'm currently living in Yvette's studio because she is off on a six week residency looking after some rehabilitating wildlife, and the other chick isn't moving out for another week. Someone needed to be here to look after the cats when she moves, so here I is. I'm only paying $50 rent at the moment, but when I move in properly I'll be paying $150 a week, which is the minimum you could possibly get in the city. And this is the deal: I get two rooms (the entire up-stairs of the house!) and free wireless internet. The phone bill is almost free as we use Skype mostly, so other than a tiny phone bill, all I have to pay is electricity and rent. I'm a 15 minute walk from the CBD and my girlfriend's house. 
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COZ I TOTALLY DON'T! I just have a huge fringe and my wet hair brushed back lol
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