I've never been interested enough to have a career trajectory. I've never had any ambition or thought of what I should be doing or had any idea of what I'd like to do. Never. And still don't. And if something comes along, I say 'Fine.'
Interpretation
The quote reflects a lack of traditional ambition and an acceptance of life's unpredictable path.
Joanna Lumley expresses a unique perspective on life and career, suggesting that she has never felt the need to follow a structured career path or have clear ambitions. Instead, she embraces spontaneity and is open to whatever opportunities arise, highlighting a philosophical approach to existence that values acceptance over ambition.
In practice
During a career advice seminar to illustrate that not everyone follows a traditional path.
My mother early on taught us to respect all animals, and I mean all animals - not just cats and dogs but rats and snakes and spiders and fish and wildlife, so I really grew up believing they are just like us and just as deserving of consideration.
Way back in the 1970s, I was eating a steak, and I looked down, and for the first time it suddenly looked like flesh to me - like a dead creature. In a flash, I realized that every time I ate any kind of meat, something had been killed for me, and I stopped eating all animals, not just cows and pigs but chickens and fish.
Everything for me becomes allegory
Yet this is trash that the Church imposes upon the world as the Word of God; this is the collection of lies and contradictions called the Holy Bible! This is the rubbish called Revealed Religion!
Let every man of whatsoever craft or occupation he be of... serve his brethren.
Plato used the dialogue format because the exchange of views, the posing and answering of questions, showed that understanding is a living, dynamic process. He distrusted writing because the settled character of the written word makes it look as if truth can be fixed and made to stand still. It is worth remembering that this greatest advocate of the objective reality of truth also believed that our access to that truth was sustained in reasoned discussion.
What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
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