The trick, as my teen hero Camus wrote, is to draw strength from the "refusal to hope, and the unyielding evidence of a life without consolation"
lalalalalalala I'm miserable, and you should be miserable too, or you'll have to be stupid, and if you're not miserable I'm going to compare you to George W. Bush, lalalalalala
sheesh, and people pay real money for this stuff? I particular like
A frequently cited 1988 article arguing that positive illusions, such as unwarrantedly high self-estimations, promote mental health has been disputed
Well, thanks! That was, like SO informative! Now I'm going to rewrite my review in a single sentence in the passive voice, with all details removed.
An occasionally cited 2007 article, arguing that hope is pathological, has been sarcastically dismissed by a large, lexically adept, waterbird
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"Pathologies" of Hope
Date: 2007-03-27 09:18 pm (UTC)The trick, as my teen hero Camus wrote, is to draw strength from the "refusal to hope, and the unyielding evidence of a life without consolation"
lalalalalalala I'm miserable, and you should be miserable too, or you'll have to be stupid, and if you're not miserable I'm going to compare you to George W. Bush, lalalalalala
sheesh, and people pay real money for this stuff? I particular like A frequently cited 1988 article arguing that positive illusions, such as unwarrantedly high self-estimations, promote mental health has been disputed
Well, thanks! That was, like SO informative! Now I'm going to rewrite my review in a single sentence in the passive voice, with all details removed.
An occasionally cited 2007 article, arguing that hope is pathological, has been sarcastically dismissed by a large, lexically adept, waterbird