I Bet That You Look Good On The Dancefloor - Aretha in the Morning

Could we have a world where things are judged on merit?

The right person for the job no matter how old, what race, creed or colour or sex or sexual orientation or philosophy... Not who is deemed 'best' for the position. Best in whose opinion?

In fact it isn't even about what is judged to be the correct way of doing things that matters at all.

We often use the phrase 'I used my common sense'.

I prefer to say that I did what I knew was right

Instincts don't make sense because we're not

Privy to the whole shebang, just see our bit

Hear lots of talk never seeing much action

Focus on Love, compassion and empathy

Patience, Tolerance, all the good stuff ;)

They'll see you through the on the way

Just as they do for the here right now

Aretha in the Morning

Rumer was on 'Something for the Weekend' on bbc2. Looking really uncomfortable. I guess it was one of her first t.v. appearances, perhaps she gets nervous like many people that you think are something they are not just because we see them on a pop video, t.v. program or film. Lots more people are shy than you would think. In real life or situations where they're out of their comfort zone, like on a sunday cooking show... But it looked to me like a herd of media training bods had swooped down upon Rumer and given her all sorts of tips and tricks and things to remember like the awful time when someone told Gordon Brown to smile more. BE YOURSELF! Cripes...

If people don't like you then, at least you know why. Trying to be something you're not or behave in a certain way, I'm a bit of a social chameleon myself but only because I'm secretly harbouring a desire to be an actor when I also harbour a morbid fear of getting up in front of people and speaking. Presentations at work in the old computer bod days soon sorted that out. All you need to know is the subject you are supposed to be talking about, focus on that and you've no problems, talking about what you know takes over, you are doing that not thinking about what everyone else is making of your technique. That's why they say write about what you know, because frankly if you think you can bullshit for an entire novel and get away with it, you only have to imagine what it would be like to be a retired actor now scraping a living by going to conventions and arguing with nerds (nerd and proud) over who said what to who in an episode of some ancient sci-fi show or some plot device that doesn't make sense twenty years later. They say that the Devil is in the detail but if that's the case then 'the Gods' there too.

As an accomplished bullshitter of many years tutelage from the best mentors one could wish for, I know what it's like to get away with saying something that you are not entirely sure of but meaning it at the time.

Doing things, bullshitting your life, surfing the exciting crest of that wave just waiting to crash.

It sucks but it's fun so why wouldn't you just do that forever...

Because when you do fall you can see that where you fell from really wasn't that high,
where you really are now and where you might like to get back to on your own merit.

Light &
Love
Jon
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