Said Oscar Wilde: “I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.”

I wonder, do you take yourself too seriously? Like, do you sit around and ponder the fate of the world and think that you will be the one who saves it and changes it for the better? That every word you say holds the weight of gold?

I do. TOTALLY.
In my head, I am usually wearing a crimson cape and with a raised fist. Often, I have a very serious look on my face, and a box of crayons in my lowered hand.

In case you haven’t noticed, I take myself seriously enough that I have A BLOG whereby I can share my brilliance, because where would the world be without me?

Well. Maybe not exactly, entirely.
Though I do like that this place has as its epicenter: ME…and I need an audience like a modern day court jester. Obviously.

That said, I have noticed an abundance of people who really and truly take themselves far too seriously. So seriously, in fact, that I enter a state of hysterical shock when I read what they have written. So seriously, in fact, that I have had to stop reading what they write. And let me tell you that since years, I continue to have regular, personal, in-the-flesh dealings with people who have every right to be full of themselves in this world, and yet they are not. When push comes to shove, they will make fun of themselves because they know it’s one of the only ways to keep their egos in check.

These other ones though, they’re fascinating creatures, no?
We all know at least one.
And if we know one, we know a few, because when they self-fellate, they want someone to hold their hair back and who better than someone for whom they can do the same?

They mobilize in packs (because normal people can’t stand them) and feed off of one another.

So what happens when we take ourselves too seriously? Most of the time, if not all of the time, where we refuse to genuinely laugh at ourselves, we instead lay the groundwork for others to laugh at us as they walk away. Even the nicest among them.

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Image thieved from NYPress(dot)com.

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