Personal fictions
Things I believe which aren’t remotely true:
It’s a warm day in February, this must be the start of spring. Most people are pretty smart. Most people can be reasoned with. Intentional cruelty is an anomaly. Bullies will get their comeuppance. Other people’s dirt is dirtier than your dirt. Most people value a work ethic. I’m a really good driver. Rich people can’t possibly be that obtuse. Moisturising helps. Someday he’ll have that epiphany, and apologise. My years of abject poverty taught me a valuable lesson. One day this house will be sparkling clean. Self doubt keeps you humble. Grammar is fascinating; punctuation is an art. Hugo has hidden depths. Things happen for a reason.
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- I alway liked that survey that asked people whether they were good, average or bad drivers. Results:
Good 70%
Average 20%
Bad 10%
No bell curve there then . . .
— bhikku Mar 15, 9:01pm # - When, out of the blue, my right ear starts ringing, someone somewhere is singing my praises.
When, out of the blue, my left ear starts ringing, someone somewhere is talking trash about me.
— Gord Fynes Mar 15, 9:19pm # - Someday I will turn over a new leaf and become a better person. Soon.
— Don McArthur Mar 15, 9:54pm # - I’m sure that Hugo has hidden depths … it’s just that he doesn’t stand a chance when overshadowed by Oliver ;)
— kt Mar 16, 12:34am # - These pants must have shrunk in the dryer.
— Dan Allen Mar 17, 3:57pm # - My other car is a porsche
The cheque is in the mail
What I don’t know won’t hurt me
— Jerry Mar 18, 2:59am # - parents are the prime determiners of how their children feel about the world; people are curious;
it’s worth arguing about; if i can say it clearly, you will be able to hear me
(from a longer series here: http://www.tuckova.com/?p=309)
“Personal fictions” is a lovely title for these. It’s funny how sad they are, these delusions, or rather how constantly disappointing they are because they cannot deliver, and how desperately we cling to them anyway.
— anne Mar 18, 8:00am # - My personal favorite: “If you’re nice to people, they’ll be nice back.”
My university-life, “hard-times” favorite: “It builds character.”
And my family’s 2 favorites: “Everyone gets only what they deserve in life” and “Everything happens for the best.”
Argh.
— nightingaleshiraz Mar 19, 4:28pm # - “You get what you give.” I tend to like that one.
— ba Mar 19, 5:27pm # - “This, too, will pass.”
— Eric Hortop Mar 19, 5:53pm # - “She’s had a rough year. I’m sure the drinking and the screwing random guys will stop when she gets her shit together.”
Whew! One month left in the lease!
— Justin Mar 21, 5:18am # - I just don’t give a shit anymore!
(Oh, how I wish that were nonfiction more than it’s fiction in my life. I’d have so much more energy and time for other things, like being a greedy, soulless corporate czar.)
— roggey Mar 23, 5:19pm # - That I gave up caring for Lent – and that I don’t care that nobody has noticed: not that it would make a difference if they did/didn’t.
That love and living together is all happiness and sex – that by sheer force of will I can make her want me the way that I want her. (Or, that doing house-work is the new foreplay!)
That being an adult is all that it’s cracked up to be.
That if you just believe – if you just wish upon that star, blow out enough candles, float prayers on the wind – that things will all work out.
— GMR Mar 23, 9:59pm # - Oh, I hear you all.
(Except, of course, that bit about it shrinking in the dryer. That simply has to be true.)
— gail Mar 23, 10:37pm # - “Someday he’ll have that epiphany, and apologise. ”
...and yet it’s so hard to keep yourself from hoping anyway, isn’t it?
— Annie Mar 24, 7:49am # - Mirrored
— Ray Apr 16, 3:22pm #
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