Posted by: bossybetsy on: April 13, 2010
Dear Betsy,
I used to listen to that song “Ants Marching” by Dave Matthews and think, man, I need to go do something with my life. But now I’m older, and when I hear it I think, screw you, Dave Matthews. We can’t all be hippie musicians. The world needs accountants, too.
So who is right, Dave or me?
Signed,
Antannae Waving
Dear Antannae,
I’m kind of a Thomas Jefferson fangirl. If you can overlook his ooky personal life, which I can, he was a pretty amazing person. That whole inalienable right to the pursuit of happiness thing? Brilliant. Although my recollection is that someone, maybe Adams, inserted the “pursuit of” in front of happiness. Even TJ needed to be walked back from time, I guess.
If you pursue happiness through accounting, rock on. It seems like you don’t pursue happiness through the Dave Matthews Band. Next time the song comes on the radio, change the station. Conforming via non-conformity is so ’95.
Hope that helps,
Betsy
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