No Such Thing

It’s a lovely idea, an ideal life, but like everything else it’s not a concept that I can pin down. I know other people may have a clear picture of that ideal life, but for me it’s never come into focus. I suppose part of that is my low opinion of human beings as a species. As my favourite sweatshirt says, ‘People ruin Everything’! Therefore, even if I could picture my perfect life, someone would come along and ruin it before I could get settled. I have been lucky in my choice of partner as Janet has definitely made everything better but I don’t think for a minute that we could ever achieve the ideal. In any case, once that ideal was achieved you would get bored and be looking for the next thing. That’s human nature, to never be satisfied. This is why the greedy people who rule the world, financial and political, are never satisfied with fortunes they couldn’t spend in a thousand lifetimes. They want power and they want to subjugate people to prove that they are better than anyone else. So, if I achieved the ideal they would want to put a stop to it anyway. I was watching the celebration of the 100th birthday of Sir David Attenborough and I realised that when he is gone there will be no one who will be listened to on the environment in the same way, so my ideal life would be ruined by the collapse of nature. TLDR Don’t bother looking for the ideal life because there isn’t one!