Perfect example

Everyone liked the story about Flight 1549 this week, though I bet everyone involved wished it had never happened. I think this is always the weird paradox of 'The Hero' - that they truly occur when something goes wrong, and after the fact they usually insist it was nothing, and anyone in the same situation would have attempted the same thing.

The other point about acts of heroism is that it can come to define a person in a manner they themselves didn't want. I hope when those two pilots retire, they look back on this as the scariest day of their life, and not the defining moment. I certainly hope that Pilot Sully isn't drawn into some insane "Joe the Plumber"-style media showboat, though given that Joe wasn't actually a plumber, I can see how that all worked out.

Maybe I'l ruminate on this a bit more later.

Blogging is for those who want to be unemployed losers

Hi. I like to get my ass kicked.

And I had something deep and meaningful to say tonight, but then the loaf pinched and all my inspiration was gone. So, instead I will describe myself - I am soon to be laid off, I will probably have to move back home, and this will probably lead to break-ups and loneliness. I can tell you, this is not because every instinct I've ever had was wrong, and I will not be doing the opposite from now. But this is a pretty low point to begin a blog, so I promise from now on I will go up and forward from here.

My only concern is that I develop a purpose for going up and forward.

Let me back-track a little...I arrived in Canada in late 2007. I had left a cushy government job in New Zealand, and decided to go to North America, not to travel around and find myself, but to create a small fall in my life and find it's purpose. Instead, I got a crappy job, travelled around a little, learned how to pass the time in Montreal, and now I find myself in this situation. It's like I've gone no-where. It's nice having a job, buying stuff, going skiing. I have friends and a really great girlfriend, long-distance she may be.

But in the main my life feels purposeless, and I have accepted the cocoon of freedom.

I will blog my metamorphosis. Maybe it will still mean having a crappy job. Hopefully it doesn't mean embracing a violent ideology or joining the Movementarians. It may involve embracing a belief-system I previously dissed. We shall see. Perhaps I should list this:

Potentially in - Belief-systems, employment.

Probably out - joining violent revolution, becoming porn-star