The missus won't give him so much as a backrub, rumor has it they both pulled an I Love Lucy and sleep in separate beds. He can't see the escorts, everyone's onto his act by now and you can bet dollars to doughnuts he is being watched. Now maybe it's just me (although I don't think it is) but seems he's the one least bothered and devastated by this mishegas. What's missing is what the shrink class refers to as nostalgic depression, a shattering of your dreams, and it's what the winos talk and brood about on Skid Row, you know the best years of your life are behind you and boy how you messed it up. Maybe it's a divorce and it's all your fault and she ain't never coming back and she took you to the cleaners, whatever. So there he is happily waving to the press, there he is walking the family dog looking like there's not a care in the world, there he is getting into the limo with his wife always separated by him by at least a 3 foot bubble. He has a rich father and won't lack for a job in the family real-estate business but you keep asking yourself when is it going to hit him like a freight train, nostalgic depression, he ruined his whole life by his own doing, the apex of his career is gone, he can't drown his sorrows anymore in a loving ho's bosom, so when is he going to drink too much or dabble in the drugs or at least show some well-worn signs of angst and existential despair on his visage? Everyone else around him is positively devastated 'cept the main player. Oh well he has some choices, he can either move to Nevada or Amsterdam, they say in Holland people smoke doobies in cafes.
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~~~or the Gay Option, maybe he and McGreevey can get it on~~~
ReplyDelete& they can all let their wives or former wives watch!
One should learn a lesson from all this, do you really want to lead a public life?
ReplyDeleteYou know sometimes when you're getting up there in age someone might say your best years are behind you meaning youth of course, generally your 20's and 30's. I disagree, the second half of your life may excel your first, a later marriage might be better than an earlier marriage. Nostalgic depression or the blues, happens often around holidays and birthdays, you wish sometimes you could go back in time and choose a different route, make different decisions. Most of us experience this and it turns into a dull bruise over time but his fall from grace was and is still absolutely stunning. Maybe it's all too fresh for it all to sink in for him but it's a doozie, almost seems surreal that so suddenly we have a new governor over here. A public life? not my cup of tea.
ReplyDeleteWhat I don't like about this too common philosophy that the 20's and 30's are the best years of your life and they're behind you now is like what are you supposed to do now? sit back in a rocking chair and read AARP magazine and wait for the Grim Reaper to ring your doorbell? No, I the way I want to go is in a fishing boat on a nice day with a monster blue at the end of my line.
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