Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

The Human Predicament: Not to be Taken Too Seriously

I've been loved, hated, feared, loathed, respected, scorned, unjustly maligned, praised for what I should not have been praised for, lionized, demonized, put on a pedestal, dragged through the mud, understood, misunderstood, ill-understood, well-understood, ignored, fawned upon, admired, envied, tolerated, and found intolerable. And the same most likely goes for you.


I've been the object of Schadenfreude, of glacial indifference, of jealousy. I've been fought over and thought not worth fighting over. I've been the object of every emotional attitude by someone or other, at some time or other, for some reason or other, or for no reason at all. I've been loved and then hated by the same person, and the other way around. I've been liked by people who do not love me, and loved by people who do not like me. I attract and I repel, sometimes different people, sometimes the same people at different times. I attract and repel myself, at different times, and pace the Law of Non-Contradiction, sometimes at the same time. I am different people to different people and different people to myself. And the same most likely goes for you.


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