Most of us stand poised at the edge of brilliance, haunted by the knowledge of our proximity, yet still demonstrably on the wrong side of the line, our dealings with reality undermined by a range of minor yet critical psychological flaws (a little too much optimism, an unprocessed rebelliousness, a fatal impatience or sentimentality). We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or a bicycle.
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Jack Vettriano
quote: Alain De Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, 127
2 comments:
That is EXACTLY how I usually feel...or I once read it put.....I'm like a eunuch in a whorehouse, I've seen it done a thousand times, but I can't do it myself...
some people just aren't meant to do things like others do. But it's hard to find out what the alternative is, and if there even is one.
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