'Normal' means craving and slaving for a semi-detached house to fill with consumer durables, your mind filled with the beauty of satellite entertainment, cheap paperbacks and glossy magazines.
Somehow, however grey your day, it is not so dark and so benighted that the high point is a happy ending in EastEnders - or mastering Marie-Claire's latest cosmetic tip in a picture-perfect designer bathroom from a decorating show, while your husband brags of his success the day he makes the down-payment on a Mercedes.
Normal, indeed. And all too true for millions of people - and worse, a source of dissatisfaction and unease to millions more who think they 'ought' to be enjoying the journey to consumer nirvana.
The physics sounds rather cheering - try mastering some mathematics, too: surprising yourself is always a bright spot in a grey day.
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Date: 2006-12-06 05:06 pm (UTC)Physics makes me happy. Am I normal?
'Normal' means craving and slaving for a semi-detached house to fill with consumer durables, your mind filled with the beauty of satellite entertainment, cheap paperbacks and glossy magazines.
Somehow, however grey your day, it is not so dark and so benighted that the high point is a happy ending in EastEnders - or mastering Marie-Claire's latest cosmetic tip in a picture-perfect designer bathroom from a decorating show, while your husband brags of his success the day he makes the down-payment on a Mercedes.
Normal, indeed. And all too true for millions of people - and worse, a source of dissatisfaction and unease to millions more who think they 'ought' to be enjoying the journey to consumer nirvana.
The physics sounds rather cheering - try mastering some mathematics, too: surprising yourself is always a bright spot in a grey day.