Delusions of Grandeur

~ Gottfried

Will it get better? Nope, it won’t. It’s funny how humans can wrap their minds around things and fit them into their version of reality. Your extremely delusional beliefs about your nonexistent greatness makes you an excellent candidate for immediate psychiatric intervention.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion. Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself. The only thing that makes life unfair is the delusion that it should be fair.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. You think a pretty face would make a great partner without first hearing her views? The devil wears prada. People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion. If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly. For some, self-delusion is the only way to survive. Sometimes a happy delusion is better than grim reality. You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Never underestimate the human capacity for delusion. The fact is that the believer is happier than the skeptic. In the same way a drunken man is happier than a sober one. All the delusion in our heads is going to bring us to our knees. Reality is often boring, staying delulu is the only solulu.

I’m at that delusional age where I think everyone my age looks older than I do. When all fails, there’s always delusion. Delusions of grandeur make me feel better about myself. It is a common delusion that you can make things better by talking about them. Hard work never killed anybody…

But why take a chance?

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  9. Dear Gottfried,

    Your embrace of delusion as a key to happiness is intriguing. However, your belief in your own ‘nonexistent greatness’ and the idea that confidence is 90% delusion, might just make you the perfect poster child for a whimsical world where reality takes a back seat! Mike

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