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And so the worse is over, at least for this volume. Now all
that lays ahead is my ultimate 'professional' destiny and the
revelation of what my 'situation' truly is.
Over my years I've come up with a simple phrase that denotes how I
feel about my place in life. Given my unusual experiences, I find
that I will often identify with bits of other people's lives while
most people identify with how much of other peoples' lives
corresponds with their own. Thus I coined: ''I identify with
everyone and in return no one identifies with me.''
Generally I hate such definitive statements, for there is always
an exception and I am one of them.
Typically when you hear 'no one' or 'nobody' in a definitive
statement, it so often seems people are talking about me. ''No one
has dreams that don't feature themselves.'' ''Nobody would stick
their finger into a light socket!'' ''No one is allergic to rice.''
''Nobody's going to open that jar of old peaches.'' ''No one can
remember things that well from that long ago!'' When I hear these my
response has become, ''Please don't refer to me as a nobody/no one.''
But, in real life, it seems that's exactly what some people have
actively tried to make me through their machinations. The irony
is, it's their very own actions which I feel has made me somebody...
The question is: Am I 'somebody' you'd want to meet late at
night on a street corner...?
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