He doesn't Want To Be Rich vs Presumptuousness

Envy drives you, not me.

Cowardly Words or Hatred is Validating

… “they were certainly intended for Father’s ears. He was seated alone on a lounge chair in the sitting room, his face veiled with a copy of his favourite newspaper, the Guardian, half reading and half listening to Mother. And although he heard everything she said, Father always turned deaf ears to words not directly addressed to him, the kind he often referred to as “cowardly words.”

                                                                   Excerpt From: Chigozie Obioma. “The Fishermen.”

If you claim to “hate” someone, yet devote a significant portion of your time and attention to campaigning a narrative of how irrelevant and meaningless this individual is, you’re actually only highlighting their competence, showcasing their importance to you, and encouraging others to devote a similar measure of focus on this person’s life.

                                                                Hatred is Validating (Paul John Moscatello).

If He Does Not Need A Friend, How Come He Has So Many Powerful Enemies. He Wondered Aloud. I Said Nothing!

Powerful?
Powerful DOES tell lies and later try hard to prove them?
Powerful DOES need to tell lies to feel superior?

“HARRY: I tell you, it is not me you are looking at,

Not me you are grinning at, not me your confidential looks

Incriminate, but that other person, if person,

You thought I was: let your necrophily

Feed upon that carcase. . .

                                                                       T. S. Eliot. “Family Reunion.”

“I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids -- and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination -- indeed, everything and anything except me.”

                                                                        Ralph Ellison. “Invisible man.”

Today’s Quote

• "When we understand, we become polite, happy and inventive. When we have only learned enough, our souls exhibit more charm and pliability. However, we understand very little and are poorly instructed, so it rarely happens that we embrace a thing and make ourselves lovable too. Indeed, our ignorance and lack of desire for knowledge are very adept at stalking about as dignity, as character."
                                  — Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak