My friend, Dan, was telling me the other day about hell. Hell for him, to be specific.
"I am sitting alone in a dark theater and there is no popcorn, of course. And then a movie starts to play and the title of the movie is: All the Women Dan Could Have Had Were he not a Cowardly, Clueless Putz.” And it would be an excrutiatingly loooooooooooong movie.
Dan said that many opportunities in the form of amazing women have presented themselves to him over the years. In hindsight he realizes he completely missed many of them or was just way too chicken to go for it in other situations. Sigh.
Dan’s version of hell brought to mind my second-most favorite William Saroyan quote. It goes like this:
There's a pretty woman for every lucky man in the world. Every man in the world is a lucky man if he only knew it, so why waste time?
~William Saroyan, Jim Dandy: Fat Man in a Famine, 1947
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Nope, Dan regrets letting many treasures pass him by. He is not a book by it's cover kind of guy. That is why he is my friend. I avoid shallow peeps as a rule.
And I think Saroyan was saying the same thing--prettiness is about everything but asthetics. Every man is surrounded by beautiful women. Some are lucky in that they can see what is in front of them. Some are unlucky in their lack of substance and shallow blindness. I call those guys "losers." Because they are.
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