Thomas Wictor

Posts Tagged ‘misanthropy’

I’m reminded that you never cross the finish line

Today I was reminded again that I have an entire universe to traverse before I can sleep. I’m trying to improve myself, but there’s no finish line. In this race, you’re either a player in it forever, or you’re sitting on the sidelines. My problem is not that I’m a misanthrope; I just get furious…

 

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You don’t speak for me

Today I read a long blog post about how “90 percent” of us are furiously jealous of all good fortune that others enjoy. It’s only natural. If someone else is happy, successful, attractive, physically fit, talented, healthy, wealthy, and wise, the overwhelming majority of us wish ill on the person and hope they suffer calamity….

 

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Why I don’t Mind Hermitude

I go out on shopping excursions and to visit Mom in the nursing home. Hermitude is the new normal. Since 2011 the longest car trips I’ve made were to meet with Scott Thunes and watch him play. Yet even in my nearly nonexistent brushes with the general public, things keep happening. It’s simply my fate…

 

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