Bits of wisdom from people

Pessimism/Optimism

I don't know about the rest of you but I kind of enjoy looking back and seeing the mistakes I made so as to learn and grow from them. Sometimes I even revel wallowing in the misery that the past has brought upon me.

You might be thinking wallow in the past? Revel in that? Why not look forward where you can change things? You might even be looking down on me for not trying to find the good in all this unemployment business, thinking to yourself why not be optimistic about the situation? Believe it or not you aren't the only person to think this much less tell me. I say screw all of you and the horses you rode in on.

Helen Rowland once said "An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country." Well, my spouse is in the country but the way things are going I don't know for how long. I have empty pockets and bad digestion, just ask my spouse, so I fit the pessimist mold perfectly. I really would like to be an optimist, in fact I think I once was one when my pockets were full and my crap came out whole.

Things could be worse...

I keep hearing people tell me that it could always be worse. Screw that, of course things could always be worse. Things could always be better too. Telling someone that it could always be worse is like telling me I could have six fingers on my right hand. Well, sure I could BUT I DON'T! I suppose people say it to put things in perspective; well for the record I have more than enough time to put things in perspective while waiting for the 20 companies I applied to yesterday to show interest in me. I need perspective like I need another asshole. What I need is a F-ing JOB!!!

Someone once said "I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet." Employed people telling me it could be worse is like the man with no shoes complaining to the man with no feet about his shoe problem.