Ten pounds of personality in a five-pound bag
As I told someone earlier today:
This is not an “others have walked so that you can run” kind of situation. This is more like, an “others have run straight into the electric fence, so you should strongly consider walking” kind of thing.
This can apply to many things.
Go slowly. Make careful, measured decisions.
When I was a teenager, I was a total weirdo.
I mean, I still am. But I was then, too. (Apologies to…Mitch Hedberg, I think?)
One year at our big family beach vacation, I announced at dinner that our cantaloupe was just like Achilles.
Everyone stared at me.
Sensing the fact that they did not understand my Galaxy Brain (we did not have memes when I was a teenager, so I am making up for lost time now), I explained.
Earlier in the week, the cantaloupe we had bought was large, but very bland. But the cantaloupe we were eating that night was small and very sweet! So it’s like Achilles, who was offered a long life in obscurity or a short life of glory, and chose the short life of glory.
Short life? Small cantaloupe. Glory? Sweetness.
It made sense to me.
Emilybook 