What I took from it is
we're socially hard-wired to want certain things that it might not behove us to want, and we can have lots more fun and adventures if we don't beat ourselves up for not wanting them/having them.

Certainly I don't envy the small handful of people I know who are in the kind of stultifyingly dull long-term relationships he describes, nor do I ever want to sit through another conversation about the various merits of shelving units(there's only been one, but it was enough.) I think that they do lack imagination, but then that's why they're not people I'd want to spend a massive amount of time with. At the moment I really can't see the attraction of the standard mortgage-marriage-kids triumvirate, but then I'm only 26, I'll probably give up on trying to enjoy life at some point too :)
(jennymnemonic, Mon 18 Oct 2010, 15:44, 2 replies)

You don't have to be married with kids to be a massive dullard

(Nanny Pat vote for me, Mon 18 Oct 2010, 16:31, closed)

Thanks
Finally someone who understands what I'm saying. Because so many have taken the social hard wired route and as a result feel like they're happy and successful - when challenged by what I wrote, they take it personally and to heart and hit out. Especially those that married and had kids at a young age.
(Miggyman, Mon 18 Oct 2010, 18:27, closed)