The Endless Pursuit

People who feel the need to assert how great they are at every opportunity, I've noticed, are doing so in lieu of actually being great.

Here's the thing, though: when you tell everybody about all the things you are all the time, without actually being those things, you're only really telling yourself. It's a masturbatory fantasy, and little else.



Also, this is not directed at any one person -- in fact, this is meant to be more of a test run, to see if public entries could ever conceivably be worth my time.

But if it strikes a chord in you somewhere, regardless of what that chord is, I just might be talking about you -- whether I know it or not.