On self-delusion...
Perhaps the thin line between self-delusion and dreaming big is crossed where tomorrow’s gains are sacrificed on the altar of yesterday’s illusions.
Perhaps the thin line between self-delusion and dreaming big is crossed where tomorrow’s gains are sacrificed on the altar of yesterday’s illusions.
Edit – Just so you know, I have nothing against Lawyers and Doctors… Its just that they make me want to tear my hair out sometimes…. Its nothing personal.. LOL Quite frankly if it were possible to be ‘cursed’ with doctors and Lawyers – I think I would have that curse…. My mum is a closet doctor - maybe the disappointment of missing out on medical school made her over compensate - but all my young life I was innudated by quasi-medical books - Look Younger, Live Longer, Where there is no Doctor, Every Woman, and a slew of health books by the Seventh Day Adventists; plus all the newspaper cuttings – how smiling adds a year to your life, hyper vitaminosis, drink your way to health and all that ish.. ...
Sometimes I wonder what the difference is between…………… Self-delusion and Dreaming Big Hypocrisy and the Gap Trap Narcissism and Self Esteem Love and Admiration Pragmatism and Foolhardiness “If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side? - Leo Tolstoy
So I spent V-Day at home, with a tall glass of milk (make that several), a pack of tortilla chips flavored with some hot sauce (i forget the name) from Marks and Spencer, alternating between playing FM2009 on my laptop, popping into Facebook from time to time and trawling blogsville for the slightest attempt of a post by anyone that i hadn’t commented on whilst making sure to avoid all the mushy Hollywood guy-meets-girl-and-they-fall-in-love make believe sold as movies to the unsuspecting… Given that meant my books were left unattended to for a whole day, (unthinkable - considering i shelled out 13k pounds before the pound went into freefall that is) it might have counted as a day completely wasted… ...