How true this rings! How often have I found myself in with a shiny new electronic gizmo in my hands, yet to be unpackaged, with daydreams of the laser beams and miraculous first aid treatments to come... only to discover a few days later that my expensive toy was best designed to act as a paperweight? There is something peculiar with how the human mind can so contort the idea of something that when it is actualized, it becomes a disappointment. Why and how is that the human mind is able to work outside the perceptions we currently experience and 'create' an idea which may or may not be based on the current reality before us? Or the rational reality that logic tells us is fact?
In the months leading up to coming to Strasbourg, I had numerous fanciful ideas floating about my head. The people I would meet. The trips I would take. The places I would visit and conversations I would have. Of course, I had already spoken with previous program participants and reviewed the program website, but my mind elected to create a fanciful idea of meetings with MEPs, interviews with European bureaucrats, dinners with VIPs... Apparently, someone slipped something into my water because I've spent more than my fair share of time sleeping on the couches of friends and waiting at bus stops in frigid weather for the last ride to Robertsau. I was able to imagine a fanciful high-profile life, despite all evidence to the contrary... and the dealt with the reality that followed. I mean, I'm not saying that I'm disappointed, but it would have been nice to sit around a table with Nick Farage just one and tell him to shut the f*ck up.
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