Why would you deny me answers?
If I’m just a boy on the break of being
Horror and hell through its fires
Be brutally honest, was it better before me?
In the curve of your body
How I want her with me
The truth of the story
The Vishual, I wish you all
The better end of all to come
The truth be now here one by one
I am to extend to none
The memory that fuels the fire...
...
Could this be that hard for me?
To configure the new love in vain
To my new entity or banish it home to the grave
I will not save… your world
1.26.2009
Optimysticism
"This is a very important lesson. You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end - which you can never afford to lose - with discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be." -- Admiral James Stockdale.
Obviously, a war quote kind of seems out of place with what I am feeling... but the sentiment is good nonetheless.
Don't give up hope... but be realistic.
Edit: here's the whole bit I drew the quote above from.
"Optimism is a critical survival tool, but only when it's balanced with realism. This concept is known as the Stockdale Paradox, named after Admiral James Stockdale, the highest-ranking American prisoner of war in Vietnam. The idea was popularized by author Jim Collins in his best-selling book Good to Great. When Collins asked Stockdale to explain which American prisoners did not survive captivity in Vietnam, the admiral replied, 'Oh, that's easy. The optimists.' Collins was perplexed, but Stockdale explained that the optimists 'were the ones who said 'we're going to be out by Christmas.' And Christmas would come, and Christmas would go; and then Thanksgiving, and then it would be Christmas again. And they died of a broken heart.' Stockdale went on: 'This is a very important lesson. You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end - which you can never afford to lose - with discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.'"
From NYTimes "Freakonomics" Blog.
Obviously, a war quote kind of seems out of place with what I am feeling... but the sentiment is good nonetheless.
Don't give up hope... but be realistic.
Edit: here's the whole bit I drew the quote above from.
"Optimism is a critical survival tool, but only when it's balanced with realism. This concept is known as the Stockdale Paradox, named after Admiral James Stockdale, the highest-ranking American prisoner of war in Vietnam. The idea was popularized by author Jim Collins in his best-selling book Good to Great. When Collins asked Stockdale to explain which American prisoners did not survive captivity in Vietnam, the admiral replied, 'Oh, that's easy. The optimists.' Collins was perplexed, but Stockdale explained that the optimists 'were the ones who said 'we're going to be out by Christmas.' And Christmas would come, and Christmas would go; and then Thanksgiving, and then it would be Christmas again. And they died of a broken heart.' Stockdale went on: 'This is a very important lesson. You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end - which you can never afford to lose - with discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.'"
From NYTimes "Freakonomics" Blog.
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