Bliss, Freedom, and parachutes
Sep. 23rd, 2000 12:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pluralToday I quit my job...
had a feeling it was coming, but it does feel nice now. I have some business deals to close early this week, then it is off to eastern washington for a week of bliss.
My boss took me out for cocktails at 3pm, I was blitzed by 4pm.
I highly recommend employement contracts, see this is the beauty of it, I quit today, and they still have to pay me for the next two months. Of course, I have another job offer in the works, after my required month off between jobs of course.
I refuse to work more than 9 months a year, it is too great a waste of life.
I am not sure exactly what I am going to do with the time yet, maybe take up pottery again or something similarly zen like.
I have decided to put off chasing women for a while as well. I realized that I am a very different person from the last time I was single and should probably explore it and figure out what works for me.
I went wine shopping yesterday, bought over 13 cases of wine, spent far too much money but it was worth it. I am thinking of opening the bottle of '63 Rothchild sitting back on my porch with a two hundred dollar cuban cigar and getting sloshed.
There is a delightful point of excess in life, where you are no longer enjoying something particulary fine, but enjoying the simple freedom to burn cash.
I have exquisite tastes, but to be completely honest I cant tell the difference better a hundred dollar cigar and a two hundred dollar cigar. so why do I smoke the two hundred dollar cigar? Granted I am not bill gates so I dont do it often, but there are two reasons, the first because I can, and the second because I enjoy the fact that I can.
I think I almost enjoy spending money for its sake alone, more so that for what it buys me.
Being able to drop a few grand on wine because I got excited and felt like it, is quite refreshing, almost theraputic even.
I highly recommend it.
had a feeling it was coming, but it does feel nice now. I have some business deals to close early this week, then it is off to eastern washington for a week of bliss.
My boss took me out for cocktails at 3pm, I was blitzed by 4pm.
I highly recommend employement contracts, see this is the beauty of it, I quit today, and they still have to pay me for the next two months. Of course, I have another job offer in the works, after my required month off between jobs of course.
I refuse to work more than 9 months a year, it is too great a waste of life.
I am not sure exactly what I am going to do with the time yet, maybe take up pottery again or something similarly zen like.
I have decided to put off chasing women for a while as well. I realized that I am a very different person from the last time I was single and should probably explore it and figure out what works for me.
I went wine shopping yesterday, bought over 13 cases of wine, spent far too much money but it was worth it. I am thinking of opening the bottle of '63 Rothchild sitting back on my porch with a two hundred dollar cuban cigar and getting sloshed.
There is a delightful point of excess in life, where you are no longer enjoying something particulary fine, but enjoying the simple freedom to burn cash.
I have exquisite tastes, but to be completely honest I cant tell the difference better a hundred dollar cigar and a two hundred dollar cigar. so why do I smoke the two hundred dollar cigar? Granted I am not bill gates so I dont do it often, but there are two reasons, the first because I can, and the second because I enjoy the fact that I can.
I think I almost enjoy spending money for its sake alone, more so that for what it buys me.
Being able to drop a few grand on wine because I got excited and felt like it, is quite refreshing, almost theraputic even.
I highly recommend it.
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Re: and 200 dollar I'll take a cigar as well
Date: 2000-09-24 11:56 am (UTC)I can in all earnestness say..
I believe you..
However, as I was saying, it is most often those who dont have enough who disparage money.
And to be frank (I like his wardrobe) I would hardly classify you as one who disparages money, I think you fall into the more philosophic catagory of those who understand that money is not the defining goal of life.
To which I agree completely.
Re: and 200 dollar I'll take a cigar as well
Date: 2000-09-24 02:39 pm (UTC)Since this thrill (it seems to me) comes from the rush of having a physical manefestation of the superiority you feel from your station in life, aren't you using money to not only define your "self" but those around you?
What is life if not the pursuit of these fundamental understandings (ie your place as well as the place of others)?
$200 cigars, $10 whores, et al
Date: 2000-09-24 04:17 pm (UTC)The thrill of being one who can afford to do so? perhaps, I think it is more they joy at wasting something which other hold in such high regard.
The general audacity of it.
There are people who work an entire week and make less than I just burned.
I think that is why I like the symbolism of the cigar, for you are quite literally burning cash.
Flaunting the weakness and internalized inferiority of people in their faces.
BTW I decided to movethe bulk of my comments in response to your delightful points to a standard journal entry. I invite you to join me in continuing this there. As always, I greatly enjoy matching ideas and perceptions with you...