tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post170742610170817801..comments2024-03-27T20:34:09.464+01:00Comments on zmkc: The Lives of Otherszmkchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-68669991597405018032010-09-09T22:07:45.007+02:002010-09-09T22:07:45.007+02:00Thank heavens you told me, Worm - my first day at ...Thank heavens you told me, Worm - my first day at the office might have been a bit disappointing (for me and for the patients)zmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-39435730657159432322010-09-09T17:31:38.108+02:002010-09-09T17:31:38.108+02:00I think you heard it wrong. They were both nurses,...I think you heard it wrong. They were both nurses, talking about the new doctor at work who'd unfortunately spent the morning 'looking at a penis'wormhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02802335627720182532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-48057091540050491432010-09-09T17:30:23.411+02:002010-09-09T17:30:23.411+02:00This comment has been removed by the author.wormhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02802335627720182532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-36187084305039400992010-09-09T14:00:43.518+02:002010-09-09T14:00:43.518+02:00Hi Gaw, or Al as I shall call you from now on (why...Hi Gaw, or Al as I shall call you from now on (why do I have the idea that de Botton might not be too keen on the shortening?), I wasn't going to be looking for happiness, just contemplating it, which I thought could be a fairly relaxing way to get paid. "Happiness, I could sit and look at if for hours," to paraphrase Jerome K Jerome.<br />Peter Porter, the poet who died the other day, said, about writing poetry: "It is like most human pleasures - difficult but preoccupying." That's where happiness lies, I reckon - in doing things that are difficult but preoccupying.zmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-90302800172077822692010-09-09T00:32:11.033+02:002010-09-09T00:32:11.033+02:00But surely it's no use looking for happiness a...But surely it's no use looking for happiness at a place where they look at happiness? Happiness, I read somewhere, is the incidental product of useful activity. It may be that any office job is therefore more likely to be productive of happiness than one which is concerned with looking at happiness, an entirely useless activity.<br /><br />I'll stop there as I feel I'm coming over all de Bottonish.Gareth Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05058241057385364459noreply@blogger.com