I am aware of the need for constant self-revision and growth ... My ideas are always changing, always moving around one center, and I am always seeing the center from somewhere else. Hence, I will always be accused of inconsistency. But I will no longer be there to hear the accusation.
in Thomas Merton’s A Vow of Conversation
He wants to say “centre”, but let’s ignore such issues related to the study of languages and dialects for the moment.
I’m tired of the average person. Not because they’re average but because they can’t accept that fact. Which in turn means I’m tired of me. Tiredness is wonderful for it wears off with some rest. Indeed, special people or genius do not, cannot afford to spend huge amounts of their time online, their geniuses being applied as I lose this time writing this regular text. Average people can.
Dear average person, if you were a genius your genius would have already poured out even if you didn’t want to. You’d probably not even know about it, as your geniality would be the produce of a regular day.
Accept your averageness ; yet aspire to be the best average person of them all. It’s your natural course — accept it, I pray. I can’t think of nothing worse than being an average average person or a lousy average person.
And if black is beautiful, average is awesome.
But I will no longer be here to hear what you have to say.
