Failure

I am convinced that some people prefer to be failures in life. I think they like the negative attention that goes with being consistently unsuccessful. I think that they like to tell other people that things will go badly and then being able to prove themselves right. Self serving self gratification is easy.

I know many people in middle age that seem to glory in never having been really good at anything, and are more than willing to try to convince you that you should be that way too. Maybe they think that if they lower the standard they will seem more in tune with the rest of society.

Worse yet, I know many people of middle age that suffer from delusions of adequacy. They think and act like they are the sole owners to the keys to all knowledge, yet have proven time and time again just how terribly inept they actually are. This does not effect how they think of themselves. Man is the rationalizing animal.

There has to be some people that hold a higher standard for behavior or else things will go to hell in a hand basket.

I am often flabbergasted at the ‘leaders’ of our country and how easily they are swayed to settling for less than what is really needed. We as a society have become so afraid of special interest groups and opposition that we no longer stand up for what we all know is right.

No matter what idea you have someone will have an opposing view. That is the nature of man. The art of compromise now seems to be accompanied by bloodlust and personal attacks.

We are willing to settle for the smallest things we can get while throwing away the things that we really want in order to give in to social pressure. Is being proud of yourself that difficult? Is standing up and acting like an adult that challenging? I think that going to bed feeling like you did the right thing that day is a far better feeling than sleeping with the cloud of guilt hanging over your head over having lied your way out of a socially uncomfortable situation just cause you were embarrassed.

But that’s just me, I guess.