December 11th, 2012 → 6:32 am @ Lea // No Comments
“I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in his grace.” – Much Ado About Nothing
One of my personal failings is that I have a hard time letting things go. How do other people do it? Just forget about and gloss over the abuse and obnoxious behavior other people commit? I know that religion and psychotherapy both tell me to let things go already because, in the end, I’m mostly hurting myself by agonizing over them. But I find it so hard! Sometimes I just can’t help being an honest, straightforward canker, rather than a superficial, sycophantic rose, in an idiot colleague’s presence. Will things ever get better?
Chris Clark
11 years ago
To paraphrase Scott Adams, the world is largely populated by shallow and ignorant people. Charles Bukowski once said, “The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.†I like the sentiment, but I meet so many folks in my profession who match the textbook definition of ‘sophomore’, that I contend Mr. Bukowski was off just a bit, and it should be ‘wise’ rather than ‘intelligent’.
Lea
11 years ago
That’s a good quote. I like it too…