I lead a VERY busy life now.  I mean that.  But as I race through my day I do scan news etc... I'm not living in a vacuum.   So today I hit the Drudge Report and see bit about Chris Matthews and John Stewart. As I watch it on YouTube I see a few things I really really find to have been right on the money in my own life.  Theory's on how life should be lived.

The fact is life is not to be lived mechanically, using people to get where you want or get what you want.  Not if you want happiness.

Chris Matthews wrote a book about living life like a politician does and with that strategy, you'll get ahead. Chris espouses that life is a campaign.  John Stewart calls him on the carpet for this way of looking at life, and moreover living that kind of life.  While Chris makes one great point that listening to women will get them to like you, as opposed to bragging and drinking beer.  Outside of that, he makes one point that I lived over and over and over again.   The book preaches the political move of attacking someone else before they attack you.  Boy did I live that.  And yep, I resent it. So when John Stewart calls the book artifice... I see his point as I've lived out his point.

Life is a Campaign, you campaign to get a job, you campaign to get the girl of your dreams... but if you campaign to get that girl and there is not substance to your life... will you keep her? 

John Stewart calls the book artifice.  I agree.  Campaigning for love, a job or the things you want mean nothing if you have no substance. 

To me it works like this. And of course, this is only my opinion so take it for what it is worth...  You should earn your lot in life.  That's not to say I'm against short cuts if they are worthy, I remember and old saying a mentor taught me... "It's not how you get the job, it's how you keep the job."  I had no problem getting jobs so I felt it applied more to dating at the time. LOL  "It's not how you get the girl, it's how you keep the girl." 

What substance to your life is there if you only campaign and there is nothing behind it?

I know of a person like this and the old saying "house of sand" applies.  I've seen lives crumble because people campaign without substance.  Anyone can make up a lie to protect themself, but that lie is eventually exposed and the truth ...the substance is what is needed for them to keep what they lied to get in the first place.  Without the truth, without substance, the campaigning is worthless.

And to think folks... I didn't mention my family life at all. :)  Get used to it.   (I said family, not personal life.)