Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Perspective
Terrific Quentin Crisp comment quoted by Simian Farmer:
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Aside from being pithy, this is a profound idea (well, two ideas) that apply to almost everything. If we'd treat things more lightly than we're otherwise inclined to do they'd be in better perspective and become more dealable-with. Late train? Overdue bills? Flu? Not great but not the end of the world. Flip to the other end of the sentence. The souffle fell and company's arriving? serve pudding. Turkey's dry and icky? soak it in its juice a while. Yeah, okay, my examples may be dumb but you know what I mean. There are some things worth getting excited about, of course, but they're usually not the ones we pick, alas.

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