an accidental life
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Murphy
cat malogen
If you’re ‘lucky’ you get talent spotted in some useful form of intervention as a youngster. Tons of types. Even with the rarest of teachers, there’s always one you remember with genuine respect and admiration, yet one of the worst addicts I knew was a lad who got cherry-picked for a scholarship at a leading public school
Absolute fish out of water, clearly hated it. He got nuked on two fronts too, did maths like Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind and played football and cricket at near county-level. Dapper. Had an Oxbridge offer, nailed his A-levels but somewhere in his school life everything started to slide. Whatever “it” was, he never spoke about worries or concerns but when you know someone for long enough you see their slide differently, especially with hindsight
He was out caning it early rave years and as soon as skag turned up was all over it, died aged 25 from an accidental o.d
I used to try applying the Burroughs line to my friend’s life about there being no coincidences, no accidents, that nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen. Never quite got it over the line though
Absolute fish out of water, clearly hated it. He got nuked on two fronts too, did maths like Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind and played football and cricket at near county-level. Dapper. Had an Oxbridge offer, nailed his A-levels but somewhere in his school life everything started to slide. Whatever “it” was, he never spoke about worries or concerns but when you know someone for long enough you see their slide differently, especially with hindsight
He was out caning it early rave years and as soon as skag turned up was all over it, died aged 25 from an accidental o.d
I used to try applying the Burroughs line to my friend’s life about there being no coincidences, no accidents, that nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen. Never quite got it over the line though
Who thought it was cool to bring skag into it? They want shooting.
You see, anyone who approached my circle with that in mind got ⏏️
You see, anyone who approached my circle with that in mind got ⏏️
Very low agency, getting on the skag. Very high agency, making your mates dependent on you as the source.
Tall poppy syndrome, unfortunately he fell in with degenerates who wanted to drag him down. Many such cases.
Irony of poppy not lost.
Murphy
cat malogen
find me an addict who doesn’t do both, of course you never shared your cancer sticks as a closet hoarder
rough morning again eh, HmmGuv, it’s ok we’re nearly into the home leg of the standard British working day
On the contrary, a very good morning, I've been organising a trip to the south of France. You?
Murphy
cat malogen
accidental lives exist beyond career arcs, London used to be semi-affordable and the range of youth development schemes available means young people have no real agency to roam today, even for a few years of wanderlust which the middle classes achieve/attain via their college years
your man the Austrian Painter @HMGovt’s Glorious Return! , if we said his arc was grotesquely affected by WWI we’re not really addressing pathological yearnings prior to WWI - were there signs young Adolf had a ‘bit of a temper’ etc beyond the deeper Central European zeitgeists of the early 20th century and the fulcrum of his ‘accidental career’
accidental careers are more “never planned it such a way, sort of fell into it”, which is why you’re better off exploring life to its fullest, learning from multiple directions, accidents of fate and actual accidents too
what good is a story without a significant plot shift - life can be acutely grey, particularly in Britain, without a twist here n there eg where or who would you be without a few years in the trenches of early acid house
your man the Austrian Painter @HMGovt’s Glorious Return! , if we said his arc was grotesquely affected by WWI we’re not really addressing pathological yearnings prior to WWI - were there signs young Adolf had a ‘bit of a temper’ etc beyond the deeper Central European zeitgeists of the early 20th century and the fulcrum of his ‘accidental career’
accidental careers are more “never planned it such a way, sort of fell into it”, which is why you’re better off exploring life to its fullest, learning from multiple directions, accidents of fate and actual accidents too
what good is a story without a significant plot shift - life can be acutely grey, particularly in Britain, without a twist here n there eg where or who would you be without a few years in the trenches of early acid house
Murphy
cat malogen
shiels
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In what ways do you feel you've let yourself be led? by who?
shiels
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he was abandoned as a child