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	<description>In search of Contentment...</description>
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		<title>Why Working Is A Drag</title>
		<link>http://www.talking2myself.com/2010/03/08/why-working-is-a-drag/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The number of men applying for teacher training has risen sharply because of the recession, says the body responsible for training teachers.  There was an over 50% rise in the number of men applying to be primary school teachers; see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8550506.stm for the story.
I have to ask myself whether the recession is in fact the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Altruism, is it always selfless?</title>
		<link>http://www.talking2myself.com/2010/03/08/altruism-is-it-always-selfless/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A news story this morning caught my attention.  It was about the fact that bonobos, one of our closest primate relatives, prefer to share their food rather than eat alone.
&#8220;Dr Hare said it could be purely altruistic, or more selfish motives could drive this behaviour because sharing could be exchanged for future favours. The researchers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Identity Matter?</title>
		<link>http://www.talking2myself.com/2010/03/05/doesidentitymatter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;I&#8217;m Not Black, I&#8217;m Coloured &#8211; Identity Crisis at the Cape&#8217;, an &#8220;historical documentary film to explore the legacy of Apartheid through the viewpoint of the Cape Coloured community&#8221;  came to my notice recently via a Facebook page collating Zimbabwean mixed race history mainly through photographs.  Channel 4’s recent documentary &#8216;Is It Better to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gain without Pain</title>
		<link>http://www.talking2myself.com/2010/03/05/gain-without-pain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning, my son gave me one of those school photograph packs from school.  You know the ones I mean?  Where the schools get the photographer in and then encourage us, the gullible parents, to pay over the odds for the photographs? I do understand that school get a cut but I suspect the photographer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s afraid of big bad death?</title>
		<link>http://www.talking2myself.com/2010/03/02/whos-afraid-of-big-bad-death/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t remember where I heard this little tit-bit but it is one I always recall it whenever I have to tell someone I am an atheist.   In the story, a Muslim man asks a Christian man why is it he (the Christian) is afraid to die if he truly believes in heaven.  It is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happiness &#8211; Not so Good</title>
		<link>http://www.talking2myself.com/2010/02/27/happiness-not-so-good/</link>
		<comments>http://www.talking2myself.com/2010/02/27/happiness-not-so-good/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;This latest finding adds to a wealth of data suggesting that being happy isn&#8217;t all it&#8217;s cracked up to be&#8230;. Happiness seems to make people more selfish, the latest in a series of revelations suggesting it changes how you think – and not in a good way.&#8221;
via Happiness ain&#8217;t all it&#8217;s cracked up to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Travel and Well being</title>
		<link>http://www.talking2myself.com/2010/02/26/travel-and-well-being/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:26:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;By far the most important lesson travel teaches you is that your time is all you really own in life. And the more you travel, the more you realize &#8230;.. the satisfaction you get from finding new experiences, meeting new people, and learning new things about yourself&#8230;..the best experiences in life can be had for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Impersonal Business</title>
		<link>http://www.talking2myself.com/2010/02/25/impersonal-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How we in the West are accepting worsening &#8216;customer care&#8217; under the pretence of efficiency.
A number of things that have happened to me over the past few months that has made me realise just how bad customer service is developing in the Western World, or at least in the UK.  The extended use of automated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lie Down and Die.</title>
		<link>http://www.talking2myself.com/2010/02/02/lie-down-and-die/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It struck me very strongly this week that in the week that Auschwitz survivors mark Holocaust Memorial Day (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8482760.stm), I happen to be reading Viktor E Frankel&#8217;s &#8220;Man&#8217;s Search for Meaning&#8220;, Dr. Frankel was an Auschwitz survivor.  In the same week, news coming out of the disaster in Haiti cumulated with the story of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The secret of contentment&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.talking2myself.com/2010/02/02/the-secret-of-contentment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those who face that which is actually before them, unburdened by the past, undistracted by the future, these are they who live, who make the best use of their lives; these are those who have found the secret of contentment.
Alban Goodier
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		<title>Where to from here?</title>
		<link>http://www.talking2myself.com/2010/01/23/where-to-from-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have finally called time on the last 10 years of my life.  Somehow I knew it would come to this with the recent years&#8217; frustrations ensuring that to stay would not be possible.  Can I say that I am disappointed?  Well yes, I can because my expectations were, maybe unrealistically, much higher than the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Season&#8217;s Greetings</title>
		<link>http://www.talking2myself.com/2009/12/26/seasons-greetings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 09:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[talking2myself wishes everyone a wonderful Christmas and a happy new year.
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		<title>When Did I Stop Having Fun?</title>
		<link>http://www.talking2myself.com/2009/12/06/when-did-i-stop-having-fun/</link>
		<comments>http://www.talking2myself.com/2009/12/06/when-did-i-stop-having-fun/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:24:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of the time I don&#8217;t have much fun. The rest of the time I don&#8217;t have any fun at all. &#8211; Woody Allen (1935 &#8211; )
It would appear that I have a psychological need to insert a break between work and home and that break requires the some intake of alcohol simply because that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Decisions and December.</title>
		<link>http://www.talking2myself.com/2009/12/06/decisions-and-december/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 11:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. &#8211; Agnes de Mille (1909 &#8211; 1993)
December seems to be a month when things happen to me.  I don&#8217;t know if the stars are in sort of alignment before December, if I believed in that sort of junk, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Infedility</title>
		<link>http://www.talking2myself.com/2009/12/03/infedility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tiger Wood story &#8211; can famous people escape it&#8230;.
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