“Life Is A Marathon, Not A Sprint”: Midtown Real Talk

A lowly, ostracized office worker is prone to hear some fairly incongruous conversations from his perch in the background of corporate life. One such exchange might consist of ridiculous metaphors like, “Life is a marathon, not a sprint.”

When making faux sagacious assertions like this, Midtown office workers passionate about climbing the corporate ladder are being genuine in their belief that enduring the dull agony of cube life will pay off in the end, “the end” being the acquisition of as much material as can possibly prove their worth in life. Hence, uttering absurd rhetoric that they shouldn’t even be thinking, let alone saying out loud.