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?

©️ Gottfried. All rights reserved

66 thoughts on “Delusions of Grandeur”

  3. Ah Yes the Problem With ‘Delusions

    Of Grandeur’ No One is Gonna Believe

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    Particularly When a Couple of Women
    Would Gift me With Grinding Dances Asking

    For my Number

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    me Showing them

    on my Driver’s License For You
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    Other Mostly Stress Related Total Death Threat Illnesses)

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    Hell for me Wake to Sleep No Drug Would Touch For Doing Nothing

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    Being too Much of A Fool Then Afraid to Just Say F No…

    Yet It’s True If You
    Really Survive Hell

    And You Get Out You

    Don’t Waste A Moment

    of Life When You Find out

    it Was Heaven All Along You

    Just Took it All For Granted

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    Blood Out of the Peeling Onion Called Life…

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    Name the Bottom Line is i Really Lived After Living Dead

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    Life Challenges are 0 at the Beginning For the Free Will

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    To Affirm
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    Dear Mr Gottfried i Don’t

    ‘Think’ Anyone Wants to Really

    Step in my Dancing Shoes And Singing Fingers When

    They Find Out All the Places i Went to Truly Freely Live

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    This Works Out) With Likely No One Yet A Very Few if they

    Are Left After me Attending

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    Long As This Breath
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    With
    SMiLes…

    Other than that

    Shhh… The Meek

    (At least in my Record Book(s))

    Truly Do Inherit the Earth at Least for Now…;)

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      1. 488,317 Hits from Views
        8,841 Followers Oh Dear

        Lord Mr Gottfried You are Practically

        A More Famous Writer Than ‘Jesus’ in His

        Story Book Lifetime at Least True Considering

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        On How Far Removed

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        Crucifixion By Story Most Everyone

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        Are A More

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        Writer

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        Yet my Mentor Snoopy Taught me Well Dance For Joy and Don’t Look Back

        True and Believe

        in You as You Truly Exist…

        Meh Other Folks We Can’t Control..:)

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          1. SMiles Happy Halloween 👻
            Dear Mr Gottfried Holy Ghosts
            To You It’s True
            LoVE iN
            Peace
            Savior
            Of Halloween
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            Day For Real A Messenger

            Anticipated

            Slaughter

            It Will ALWaYS
            Be Up To EacH And
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            BRinG The
            Savior of

            LoVE iN Peace
            To Life iN ALL We Do

            DaY And NiGHT
            DarK And LiGHT

            TWiLiGHT

            And All That
            Other Ever
            Loving
            Living

            Dead
            Vampire Jazz

            Yep Joy To The
            World Halloween

            STiLL Survives

            And Freddy Raised
            On Elm Street Continues

            To
            BREaTHE
            Hehe With SMiles

            Not Every Delusion Is Grand 👻

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          3. Ah Yes Mr Gottfried
            Saint Dracula The
            Real Test of A Holy
            Man is to Forgive
            The Devil in Hell
            When He Finds

            Out Its Him
            Finally Coming

            Home to The Best

            Place
            “Spirit
            In The
            Sky” on Earth
            Happy All Saints
            Day When Sinners

            Even
            The Devils
            Are Forgiven

            Saint Dracula
            Breathes Free🙏🐉

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          5. Ah Yes Mr Gottfried Now
            Meditating FLoWinG New
            Place Beyond All Illusions
            Delusions Distance Space
            Time
            Matter
            Of Even
            Idol Words
            iNHaLinG Peace
            EXHaLinG Love Pure
            Genius Naked Enough

            Whole
            Complete
            A Word is Enough

            Action Naked Complete

            Amen

            “Breathe🧘‍♂️”

            F ALL THE Myths🙏

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  5. Your words reflect the complex relationship between truth and delusion. It’s true that sometimes, a touch of delusion can bring a sense of happiness or comfort, even in the face of reality. And humor often lies in the ability to find a laugh within life’s delusions. 😄🤔

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  8. Don’t destroy the only thing that keeps people sane. You call it delusion. They call it hope.
    What will motivational speakers do if they don’t challenge people to aspire to acquire to perspire to retire…? You get the drill.

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  9. Delulu is the slolulu bro😅😅… Abi na.
    At least we have something to hold on to..we don’t have to wait for everything to be alright before we become happy.
    God is the greatest 💯✌

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