Richard Stupart

Chatting with a friend tonight, whose life is taking one of those severe emotional/financial/everything shocks that lives are wont to take on occasion, reminded my about an important fact about the world. Fact, in this instance being an easy replacement for “Richard’s Opinion”.

I have come to believe that, in the end, there are two kinds of people in the world. Those who lived their lives on their own terms – who may not have been a success in the conventional understanding of the term, but who owned their destinies, woke up each morning with the power to decide their own day and be the first person to whom they have to answer. The corollary to this first category are people who found it easier to fit in, to trade wild and reckless dreams for a mortgage and the security of a paycheque – to live a life where they will not experience major upsets, and can pursue the respect of their peers in the game of life. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m new to the whole blogging thing, so had been looking for inspiration for a while now as to what would make a good experience to blog about. Unlike my more debonair brother, I am not touring Asia on an onion-free, volcano-filled English teachathon, nor have I seen much in SA recently which is more spectacular than, say, the local Spar. Not to knock Spar, – the place can be quite spectacular on the odd occasion (such as when it is on fire, filled with screaming weasels, or both).

Nevertheless, the desire to say something profound and leaderly afflicts me much as I suspect it does anyone who has taken the time out to set up a blog. After all, if there are so many fazillion people out there on the internet, surely there must be someone out there who would give a damn about my opinions. Nay, not just give a damn, but follow them with the same zealotry as one might one of those obscure jihad websites that I am told exist, but never seem to turn up in my Google searches.

So it is under this expectation that I am hoping to find the time/strength/willpower/humour to continue a blog over the coming months on interesting things which grab my thoughts and which, but for the fact that my work constrains me like a 50′s housewife in a kitchen, I would love to go out to a bar and share with the local population. Given the current foci of my existence, this is probably likely to be a combination of business, webby stuff, current affairs and fawning jealousy at my younger sibling’s fabulous adventures. :)