Some snippets:
- You often say that you're not doing exactly what you want to be doing with your life. You will continue saying this until you die.
When you talk, people are only pretending to be interested. Trust me on this. Their head is somewhere else.
The law of averages would suggest that at some point in your life, someone has referred to you as "that idiot."
If you had never met your friends, and you had been born in Iraq or something, they would not care if you got bombed. In fact, they might support the idea.
If they were paid half a million dollars and guaranteed to get off scot-free, most people would have no problem killing you. They've done surveys on this.
When you're crossing the street, people in cars are making jokes about getting points for running you down.
Ninety-five percent of the people on this planet live in painful, abject poverty. And you don't care. Heck, none of us do.
There's nothing very special about your special someone. Anyone would have sufficed.
Look at that photo you have of you and your best friend - you know, the one where you have your arms around each other and are smiling and looking right at the camera. You may think back fondly to that moment, but, if you'll recall, you were both asked to fake that smile.
I told someone recently that I don't mind being a hopeless romantic - it's the hope that'll kill me. That ties into it, I think. We just have to be able to let go of our expectations. Don't blow things out of proportion - try to see how common and trivial they are from someone else's eyes. Once you get the hang of that, it's all good.
- Current Mood:
tired
Comments
Other than the book you mentioned by Daniel Quinn, I think I might have to get my own copy of this book too!
And I like your point about the "hopeless romantic." Definitely a good thing to keep in mind!
The most obvious punchline for a book such as this is, of course, a chapter promoting suicide. And the author jumped on it like a rank amateur. Handled well, he had an opportunity to convey something truly life-affirming beneath the surface. But, I don't think he saw it. And without that, he should have quit while he was ahead.
Your composition and color scheme are better than Mr. Starosta's, but you might still appreciate that work, if only for thematic reasons.
(it is best seen with 3D glasses, though)