The Perfect Party

The people here tonight come from three points of an imaginary triangle.  At one point are those who have it all and spend their days playing golf or having lunch or hanging out at some exclusive club and who when they go into a shop can buy anything they want without first asking the price.  Having reached to top, they have realized something that had never even occurred to them before; they cannot bear to be alone.  They can’t stand the company of their husband or wife and they need to be on the go all the times in the belief that they can still make the difference to humanity, although they have discovered since they retired that their day to day life is as dull as that of any other middle class person. Eat breakfast read the newspapers, eat lunch take a nap eat supper watch TV.  They accept most of the supper invitations they receive. They go to social and sporting events at the weekend.  They spend their holidays in fashionable places even though they no longer work they will believe in something called holydays.

At the second point on the triangle are those who haven’t yet achieved anything and who are doing their best to row in very choppy waters to break the resistant of the have it alls, to look happy even if one of their parents happens to be in hospital, and they are having to sell off things they don’t even own.

Finally at the apex, is the superclass.  This is the ideal mixture for a party.  Those who have reached the top and yet carry on life as normal may well have enough money stashed away for several generations, but their influence has waned and they have realized too late, that power is actually more important than wealth. Those who haven’t yet reached the top put all their energy and enthusiasm into making the party go with a swing thinking that they are making a really good impression, only to discover, in the weak that follows that no one phones them despite all the business cards they handed out.  Finally there are these who wobble about on the apex, knowing that it is very windy up there and that the slightest gust could blow them off into abyss below.