#214: "To be great is to be misunderstood."
FROM: M****** Morgan
TO: K****
DATE: Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 1:41 AM
SUBJECT: Re: Quote of the Day
> "To be human is to be misunderstood."
Fixed that for you.
Seriously, come on. What kind of self-indulgent platitude is that? To be great is to be at least halfway understood, otherwise you're just another crackpot. The rest of us, on the other hand, have to suck it up.
You ask yourself how many wankers invoke Emerson to convince themselves and their Myspace friends that they're secretly geniuses. For that matter, ask yourself whether Emerson wasn't doing the same thing.
The fact is that there are *always* going to be people who don't get where you're coming from, even if you're the most heartbreakingly boring person on the face of the earth. That's just the way life goes. You think anyone really understands you? Or me? Or the whiny teenager in the line at Starbucks? Or the wankers on Myspace, for that matter -- it just doesn't make them as special as they think it does.
Look at me, I'm philosophical at two in the morning with no company. Obviously, I'm the next Emerson. :P
Now stop sending stupid forwards and call me, okay?
Love,
M
Mordred
Arthurian legend
185 words
TO: K****
DATE: Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 1:41 AM
SUBJECT: Re: Quote of the Day
> "To be human is to be misunderstood."
Fixed that for you.
Seriously, come on. What kind of self-indulgent platitude is that? To be great is to be at least halfway understood, otherwise you're just another crackpot. The rest of us, on the other hand, have to suck it up.
You ask yourself how many wankers invoke Emerson to convince themselves and their Myspace friends that they're secretly geniuses. For that matter, ask yourself whether Emerson wasn't doing the same thing.
The fact is that there are *always* going to be people who don't get where you're coming from, even if you're the most heartbreakingly boring person on the face of the earth. That's just the way life goes. You think anyone really understands you? Or me? Or the whiny teenager in the line at Starbucks? Or the wankers on Myspace, for that matter -- it just doesn't make them as special as they think it does.
Look at me, I'm philosophical at two in the morning with no company. Obviously, I'm the next Emerson. :P
Now stop sending stupid forwards and call me, okay?
Love,
M
Mordred
Arthurian legend
185 words