ChicagoBlue
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It is the British disease to see someone (a vet!) doing well for themselves and having everyone else shake their fist at them for daring to enjoy the fruits of that success!
While there is certainly the potential for ostentation, and rubbing peoples noses in it, often it is simply a desire to have the things you’ve always wanted, and finally being able to have them. It is RARELY an “eff you” to others, regardless of how others take it!
Bono has a story about walking past the big house on the hill. In America, people walk by and say, “One day, that’ll be me!” In Britain (England, or in his case, Ireland), they shake a fist at the house and say, “That fucker! Who does he think he is?!”
That’s why I live here…
It is the British disease to see someone (a vet!) doing well for themselves and having everyone else shake their fist at them for daring to enjoy the fruits of that success!
While there is certainly the potential for ostentation, and rubbing peoples noses in it, often it is simply a desire to have the things you’ve always wanted, and finally being able to have them. It is RARELY an “eff you” to others, regardless of how others take it!
Bono has a story about walking past the big house on the hill. In America, people walk by and say, “One day, that’ll be me!” In Britain (England, or in his case, Ireland), they shake a fist at the house and say, “That fucker! Who does he think he is?!”
That’s why I live here…
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