From “The Human Condition: A User’s Manual,” by Arnold Kunst
27 June
Every one of us was born utterly deficient in this, or
deficient in that. You might even say each of us has been dealt an utterly
despairing hand – and now we’re meant, somehow, to play out that hand, morphing
it into success. Even so, be assured you’ll get all of what counts on this side
of the grave by taking seriously any one of the abiding urges – the innocent,
abiding urges – you just can’t escape, and pursuing that urge with the
persistence and imagination that success in any human endeavor demands. In
other words, you’re to pursue it with relentless single-mindedness – Think
Henry Ford putting America on wheels. To change the metaphor, you’re to bloom
where you’re planted like a flower blossoming incongruously at 14,000 feet on
some sheer alpine rock face.
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