If you keep doing what you do, you keep getting what you get
Her: I mean, he’s great. He’s just verbally abusive, not physically or anything like that.
Me: I think you deserve better than that. Don’t you think you deserve better than that?
Her: (thinking) I guess…
Getting hot and muggy in NYC; not looking forward to summer. Today’s the nastiest day of the week and I’ve have put on the monkey suit. If there’s one area where women are luckier than men, it’s that some of us still have put on a suit while a woman can go into work in a flower print dress.
If I could, I’d wear a kilt in the summer.
The latest figs show that Americans spend $80 billion annually on cigarettes; that’s more that any nation outsidea ours spend on their entire military. Put another way, we spend more money to kill ourselves than other nations do to kill us.
Number of my friends are doing all sortsa self-destructive behaviour but they keep doing it, oblivious to the ramifications. But just like you can’t plead, argue, logic or beg someone to care about you, you can’t beg someone to care about themselves either.
When the same stimuli is applied to a situation, how can one be surprised when one gets exactly the same result?
Put another way, when you keep doing what you do, you keep getting what you get.
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A reader sent me this article, which essentially echoes what I said earlier: attractive goes away but dirtbag’s forever.
Location: Madison Ave
Mood: muggy
Music: raise your head and wear your wounds with pride
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All i got is Coke Zero. I know the aspartame is gonna kill me, but it's pretty much the only vice I got left. I don't even have coffee.
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