I suppose my biggest flaw as a human being is the fact that I've never needed anyone. This is a flaw in me that ultimately outweighs even my most disgusting characteristics. For it is this flaw that prevents me time and time again from making “the move” - from tying things up. That's something I have at times very much wanted, but it's never been something I've needed. I believe Tony Robbins is dead on when he states that we each have what we must have. I have what I must have. I was born with it.
This flaw however, like everything else, has its advantages.
I've heard it said that if one is bored being alone, one is in poor company. I believe that. Certainly there are more interesting and important things going on outside my head than are going on inside my head. But these external things have their limits and aren't always accessible. And when the boredom level of that long meeting reached excruciating, I was happy that I had all I needed.
I thought about the work I had left to do on my desk and the irony that my mind wandered off earlier at my desk thinking about the meeting. It was a few years ago when I heard a character in a movie say, “A meeting that cannot start without you is a meeting worth going to, and it's the only kind you should concern yourself with”. I love that line. It's a great line and an ever better rule. I've repeated that line a thousand times over the years never once giving credit to the movie. You know, as if it were something I thought up; as if it were my rule. It's out of character for me. I can think of no other line I've used without giving credit. I suppose I love it so much that I feel it somehow belongs to me. I think we men are guilty of that from time to time.
I should get a new watch band . . .
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