How To Bury Your Awesome

[genial_failure]

While I have severe doubts in this regard, simply because while thinking you are cool usually ensures that you are not, the opposite does not hold true, or perhaps I secretly swaddle and warm my pride, I have decided to live in certainty and address the issue with finality

Comments

[selinye]

Okay - so then this poses the question...Why would someone want to bury their awesome?

Personally, were I awesome, I would think that people knowing about it would be a good thing - because it could forward my life in so many different ways! I guess that's just me though.

[genial_failure]

The original title was "How To Bury Your Cool", but I decided to be hella-trendy yo. Also, it might have actually sounded cool, like comfy, whereas burying your awesome evokes silly images of shovels and flashing lights.

"Awesome" and "cool" are also actually different, but have been used interchangeably for this post.

Much as it is required that all replies must yearn for awesome, it is also expected that replies to replies provide reassurance as to the original replier's, in fact, awesomeness. This makes it no less true.

To the point, a practical reason to bury awesome: it creates expectation and therefore, ultimately, the awesome must reach its apex, sputter, fail, and begin to fall.

Do not rise to your level of incompetence; sink instead to the level of your competence or perhaps even deeper and darker to your level of cool.

Then hide.

[selinye]

*chuckles*

Were I not at work I would so continue this comment conversation. Must not dilly dally - must get lost in the mindlessness of entering words into forms (much like this one actually!)

[genial_failure]

*chew* *chew* *spit* *glub* *munch* *swallow*

[virdilak]

That is entirely vile.

[genial_failure]

Fulsome agreement.

[kelsiarei]

You will not do this in my house. It is against the rules which I have just made up.

[genial_failure]

We'll see how things stand after I speak to your landlord on the matter.

On a completely unrelated note, who wants to go to a restaurant?

[kelsiarei]

My landlord doesn't do shit.

[genial_failure]

I fail to see how your landlord's bizarre physiology and resulting savings on toilet paper have anything to do with establishing a new tenant policy allowing me to dine in any manner I wish.

[cyrusbelmont]

So I tried it with a Cheeseburger and a Coke. It work beautifully. You get all the delicious tastes and your own seat on the Metra Train.

This is officially the coolest thing I've ever heard and or tried.

-Official Cool Stamp-

[genial_failure]

Darn you! Darn you to socks!

[selinye]

Oh no - it looks like your plan was foiled :(

[genial_failure]

Foiling would involve re-heating my chewed and dipped food.

Leftovers, mhm-hm.

[born_dirty]

I shall have to try this tomorrow!

[genial_failure]

It is now tomorrow!

How was breakfast? It works with toast, but I have not yet ventured into eggs, sunny-side up.

[born_dirty]

I modified the skill slightly: I stuffed dry oatmeal into my mouth, then spit it out into a bowl of hot water. Instant breakfast, and none of my coworkers asked me to share!

[genial_failure]

Stylish and practical.