How to Win Friends

It’s excruciatingly important for me to

be seen as a “good” person—decent,

sensitive to others, caring, responsible,

moral, clean underwear implicit in my 

daily presentation, a listener,empathetic

if not compassionate, careful,good taste

in wine & food & music & literature & 

art & movies (cinema, film), environ-

mentally responsible, sense of humor, 

lover of animals so as to notbe left out

.—a behind.  . .    

Jt’s important to be seen as smart if not

bright, clever if not brilliant, articulate,

clear, thoughtful, insightful, one who

is discrete, a person-whisperer: coherent 

and consistent, knowledgeable, politically

savvy and up on current affairs, sports &

the arts, discerning, able to see thru buildings

& events & other people whereas the less

acute might get stuck on the surfaces, the

superficies.  Also able to cry when

appropriate.

How can one well use one’s ignorance,

fear, error, risk, hate, thoughtlessness,

mistakes, insensitivity, attention deficiency, 

guess & mess, clouds of unknowing, envy, 

jealousy, grandiosity, sense of entitlement,

pride, careless wastefulness which one’s 

growth demands who has always to be 

abusing one’s knowledge, courage, caution,

caution, love, thoughtful accuracy, sensitivity

& attention efficiency, canny discernment, 

modesty, humility, and walking softly in 

other people’s moccasins on the face of

mother earth?