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Jun. 10th, 2004
cov_and_warks for discussion of stuff and things about Coventry and Warwickshire.Please pass this on to anyone who might find it vaguely interesting.
Insurance is a joke
Jun. 10th, 2004 09:39 amOK, just been checking quotes again.
The best I've got from Admiral is £961 (no business cover).
And then, just to see if it worked, I added my Mum as a Named Driver.
And just that simple change dropped it to £819.
This scares me. I thought extra drivers would _increase_ the insurance...
The best I've got from Admiral is £961 (no business cover).
And then, just to see if it worked, I added my Mum as a Named Driver.
And just that simple change dropped it to £819.
This scares me. I thought extra drivers would _increase_ the insurance...
Well, the pub gathering at the Nursery tomorrow may well be the last!
Yes, a tragedy I know, but on the plus side, we're looking at the Whitefriars crew opening their new place next week.
I shall, of course, be forced to investigate the place, and endure the hardship of sampling their beer on monday to ensure it is acceptable.
So anyway, Nursery, Friday night, 19:00-ish onwards.
Yes, a tragedy I know, but on the plus side, we're looking at the Whitefriars crew opening their new place next week.
I shall, of course, be forced to investigate the place, and endure the hardship of sampling their beer on monday to ensure it is acceptable.
So anyway, Nursery, Friday night, 19:00-ish onwards.
It's always about the story isn't it?
I mean, there's never really such a thing as objective analysis, merely a scene viewed from one angle.
If enough components are seen, then we build up a more complete picture, but it's always viewed through the filter of our perceptions.
Small subsections of our life may turn into stories or plot arcs, but so little actually has a resolution does it?
Everyone seeking that 'happy ending'?
The truth is this. I can tell you now how the story of your life is going to end.
You die.
There are no happy endings, merely happy times and experiences to be had.
We cannot choose how, where or when we are going to die. But we can choose how our story will be told.
Would you be one who's story is soon forgotten? Remembered as one who's passing is 'no great loss'.
Or would you seek to touch the lives of those around you? To love and be loved, giving memories to be treasured to those that go on.
Would you be remembered as wise and a good friend? Or fickle, angry, petty and spiteful?
In much the same way as a story, there will be adversity. Challenges thrown at you, the hero. Maybe life is unfair. But to (mis)quote a line from Babylon 5:
"I used to think that life was unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse, if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe."
No, it's not fair. The only thing that is fair in life, is that sooner or later everyone dies.
The things that you are remembered for, those things that mean your story will be told for millenia is not how 'fair your life was'.
It's the way you dealt with the challenges, of how you learned, and grew, and loved.
(And whilst looking for that quote, I found this: A Buddhist's view on B5 Well, sort of anyway. I'm going to be re-reading it when I get 'ome)
I mean, there's never really such a thing as objective analysis, merely a scene viewed from one angle.
If enough components are seen, then we build up a more complete picture, but it's always viewed through the filter of our perceptions.
Small subsections of our life may turn into stories or plot arcs, but so little actually has a resolution does it?
Everyone seeking that 'happy ending'?
The truth is this. I can tell you now how the story of your life is going to end.
You die.
There are no happy endings, merely happy times and experiences to be had.
We cannot choose how, where or when we are going to die. But we can choose how our story will be told.
Would you be one who's story is soon forgotten? Remembered as one who's passing is 'no great loss'.
Or would you seek to touch the lives of those around you? To love and be loved, giving memories to be treasured to those that go on.
Would you be remembered as wise and a good friend? Or fickle, angry, petty and spiteful?
In much the same way as a story, there will be adversity. Challenges thrown at you, the hero. Maybe life is unfair. But to (mis)quote a line from Babylon 5:
"I used to think that life was unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse, if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe."
No, it's not fair. The only thing that is fair in life, is that sooner or later everyone dies.
The things that you are remembered for, those things that mean your story will be told for millenia is not how 'fair your life was'.
It's the way you dealt with the challenges, of how you learned, and grew, and loved.
(And whilst looking for that quote, I found this: A Buddhist's view on B5 Well, sort of anyway. I'm going to be re-reading it when I get 'ome)