view from a train in Norway

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Idealist Dreamer

A while back (pre-quitting job), a friend told me that I was the most rational person he knew. (He was also a lawyer; I suppose it takes one to think of this as a compliment.)

Sometimes I see myself as a rational person, too; certainly appealing to logic is more effective than making an emotional appeal, as far as I am concerned. (This may be a post-law school change; I can't remember what I was like before, but I think I was more emotional then.) But the way I truly see myself, the me that I see, is a dreamer. Only, the world has no time for dreamers.

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