I’M SICK OF NOT HAVING THE COURAGE TO BE AN ABSOLUTE NOBODY.
a dialogue i really love between Franny and Lane in JD Salinger’s book “Franny and Zooey”
Franny: All i know is i’m losing my mind, i’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. my own and everybody else’s. i’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. it’s disgusting! it is, it is. i don’t care what anybody says.
Lane: you sure you’re just not afraid of competing? i dont know too much about it, but i’d lay odds a good psychoanalyst - i mean a really competent one - would probably take that statement…
Franny: i’m not afraid to compete. it’s just the opposite. dont you see that? i’m afraid i will compete - that’s what scares me. that’s why i quit the Theater department. just because i’m so horribly conditioned to accept everybody else’s values, and just because i like applause and people to rave about me, doesnt make it right. i’m ashamed of it. i’m sick of it. I’M SICK OF NOT HAVING THE COURAGE TO BE AN ABSOLUTE NOBODY. i’m sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash.
** oh yes, i’m sick of people trying to prove something to everybody. Trying to become something big or be different and sound brilliant and be crazy and be beautiful and all that pretentions. And i mostly hate myself for being one at times.
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magayunon ang topic. i totally agree - we can sometimes be dominated by the desire to prove ourselves to somebody else or simply the world.
then again, isn’t it possible that to be ’somebody’ can be an unintended consequence of doing something you’re good at or you simply like or simply being you?
or,
can you really generalize that people who gain fame or get recognized for their excellence and brilliance are just after ego pampering?
its just that, i think, sometimes, trying to be nobody can be as pretentious as trying to be somebody.
(save-all phrase: su tawo na sana ang nakakaaram sa sadiri niya…)
p.s. baka naman pwede masubli yang libro na yan.
haha. cge cge.
tama ka weng, it’s also impossible na piriton mong maging nobody coz that’s just trying to be somebody. yun nga lang ang pinili mo ay maging NOBODY. still, that’s somebody.
same as, wara man talagang tawong warang pakiaram diba? unless kapay ka. haha