Posts Tagged → optimism

THE BRIGHTEST DEAL

Go out and look at people. Have you noticed their faces? Their September faces? They are glowing, confident, snappy!

That extravagant summer tan is slowly fading, leaving all those cappuccino-coloured spots behind – on foreheads, shoulders, necks.

The eyes are back in action. There is no more summer lust running down the cheeks like half-melted strawberry ice cream, NO. Watch closely! Look into people’s eyes! Behind those September sunglasses, there are perky eyes, not dilated pupils.

Mouths are talking into phones so the lips look thinner, as they move faster. Smiles are cleverer, collars are stiff, the neckline is high, the hair gets darker, and the brain gets excited.

Look at all these supernatural, smooth faces walking up or down the streets, look at all these people heading somewhere and necessarily believing that they are going to make a big difference. Look at them! Look at us! We already feel transfigured by our future, we believe in transactions and ideal customers, we believe in transparent markets and low rents, we believe in communication, ecology, in peace, love, and understanding. We believe in all those things that seemed unbelievably funny during summer.

God knows, this city has never been more optimistic. The sun has never been kinder, it has become the ideal client to work with. And look at us in the light of September sun, look at us, all self-delusional, completing the brightest deal of our lives, making our personal contribution to the well being of the Universe.

Everything turned to heavy gold bars under September sunshine; just reach out and grab one, they’ll be all gone by Christmas.  And you’ll be just another sucker.

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Dreams

There must be so many cowards hiding behind their dreams!

A life full of dreams is just as full and just as empty as a newly freed hotel room: thousands and thousands of absences floating around, filling the corners, thrilling the bed sheets. Everyone‘s in there and no one‘s to be found.

“Never give up your dreams!” is a dangerous modern edict. And – as perplexing as it sounds – a humiliating ideology, an insult to our intelligence and adaptation abilities.

No, we cannot do anything. And no, not everything is possible. There is nothing positive about “positive thinking”, and the idiotically positive views on “personal growth” have made more losers than winners.

Optimism is not about ignoring the bad, but about acknowledging the slightest form of anything remotely good that comes your way. How can you detect it if you never pay attention to reality? And how can you pay attention (and respect) to what is yet to come if you are too busy refining our dreaming skills, building up on air?

A most beautiful dream is no more than a very absence. The more extensively dreamt, the more absent and pressing would become. Until it will swallow you in. And then, it will no longer be you working on a dream, it is going be the dream working on you, haunting your rooms, switching your lights off, sucking your powers, turning you into a zombie ready to throw out of the window for the sake of his master.

There’s no higher existential “savoir-faire” than managing your ideals; that is, knowing when and how to give up your dream for saving your reality. For a start, never check in a double room, if single. It will only double the absence. 🙂

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