Saturday, September 30, 2017

“My heart is perfect because you’re inside.” – Hallmark Card

20 September
“The Human Condition: A User’s Manual,” by Arnold Kunst
Imagine this: you’re a high school senior. You just finished class in your favorite subject. It doesn’t make a difference what that subject is: biology, woodwork, you name it. But that subject is what you have pursued as a career ever since. In fact, your contentment in that career is a major reason you’re content with life in general. In fact all that is true because a few minutes earlier in this particular class you said something of preternatural brilliance, something that represented a quantum leap of creativity, something so earth-shaking that everything just STOPPED. You’re dimly aware that other kids, packing up to go to their next class, are casting furtive glances at you as if you had just walked on water and are just now back on dry land. That’s when you see your teacher seemingly floating in s-l-o-w m-o-t-i-o-n toward you. He stops right in front of you, then, taking both your shoulders in his hands looks you straight in the eye, and says, “That was simply brilliant. You’re really good at this, aren’t you?” And with all the pristine innocence, all the blossoming shyness of which the teen years are abundantly endowed, you look back and say, “REALLY?!?”


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