This Is This

I’m just speaking for myself, but when bad things happen to me, I don’t sit and count what I’ve lost out, I decide what I need to do to get back what I’ve lost.

People are often quick to blame their losses for the way things are in their personal lives, without thinking that the ways things are is because of the way they are.

I can say this because, like everyone, I’ve lost a bit and I try not to fall into that trap. When things go bad, I don’t blame the adversity, because I could do that forever and it would get me nowhere and really, who would care?

People do though. Although when people have a degree of success (fleeting, as most successes are), you don’t hear them being attributing it to their happy childhoods or expressing gratitude that things rocked for them.

Failure is fleeting, too, by the way. Thomas Watson, former IBM Chairman, said: “If you want to increase your success rate, you have to be prepared to increase your failure rate.” And he was hugely suceessful. But then they got taken to the cleaners by Microsoft.

But that’s cool.

It all happens. Illusions, mostly. When life gives you lemons, hey - you’ve got some lemons there. Doesn’t mean anything.

Mind you, I can be more accepting of these things of course because I’m sitting at home on a day off, taking it easy, messing around.

So - big smile - and to the tune of Wuthering Heights, everyone:

He’s Cliff!
Fuck me - he’s happy,
cause he’s home now.
So ooo-ooold -
Let him win at Nintendoo-oo-oooo

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At the station there was a stack of baggage trollies under a sign saying “Self Help Trollies”. Did they also provide pyschoanalysis? I wondered if, when you put your luggage on them, they said: “I’m more interested in how you are going to get your suitcase to move forward.”
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