Thursday's Thoughts

Today's Thought,

Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool
ourselves. -Carl Sagan, Blues for a Red Planet

And we often do. Doesn't it seem that the more passionate a person is about something, the more willing they are to overlook the reality of it. How often do we hear that love made someone blind? Or struggle to tell a friend that the venture they are fervently undergoing is not worth the risk? Some might say that this is the eternal curse of the optimist, but I think that it is not entirely bad to be able to fool yourself. Sometimes, when we have fooled ourselves into trudging on long after everyone around us could plainly see that what we wanted would never come true, we get what we wanted. And sometimes we find something better.

Although, don't confuse this with a "stay the course" mentality, I am fully aware that there are times that you have to cut your losses and pull out. I just think that occasionally we are able to not only fool ourselves, but also the world around us.