I feel like George Costanza.
Whoever is writing this chapter of my life- please consider how kind and patient of a person I am. I cannot keep being an example of UNDENIABLE RESILIENCE, TENACITY, AND FORTITUDE . I am just trying to understand how I, the “main” character in my OWN life, seem to repel ANY sense of accomplishment or success. Not ever, just for the last year and a half or so. But still, I personally think that’s too long.
I am not by any means a prideful person at all. Truly. BUT this stumps even me. I have pursued several new professional and personal endeavors over the last couple of months and none have worked out. I’m getting to the point where I think I’d be better off doing the opposite of what I think I should do instinctually. Hence the George Costanza reference. Maybe if I do the opposite of everything I would normally do on any given day, something will work out for me. I think the odds would for once be in my favor. If anyone wants to calculate those odds, please, be my guest. Maybe I just need to turn my brain off and become an NPC in my own plot. Maybe I’ll start to get by.
George Constanza is your typical everyman, heightened to the extreme. In the episode, “The Opposite”, George becomes enlightened when Jerry tells him, “If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right”. George then immediately gets up, approaches a woman that is out of his league, and tells her that he is unemployed and lives with his parents. She responds with interest, and just like that, his uncharacteristic risk becomes a success.
On any given day, he would have gone to the most extreme lengths to prevent anyone from finding out those facts. But when he decided to do the OPPOSITE, it suprisingly worked out.
I present this information to emphasize that I think I would find similar success if I were to adopt this principle. Why not.
WHAT DO I HAVE TO LOSE? NOT MUCH.
George Costanza is ultimately whom I have found myself relating to lately. He endures low point after low point. He takes a three month sabbatical that he calls “The Summer of George”, which was really just him making the transition to becoming unemployed once his severance package ran out. I did a similar thing last summer, and I committed so strongly that I did not receive any severance pay, and I am now 8 solid months in. It’s impressive, honestly. I lasted longer than him.
In the show about nothing, he is a member of the Seinfeld friend group that is pitied, despised at times, and ocassionally even charming. My question is, what if I, myself, AM my friend group? What if there is no one else witnessing my failures? What then? Who wrote this script??? Who would watch this show?? No doubt they would feel horrible for the girl with the unibrow.
It can’t possibly get worse than this
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . right ?
xX, the girl with the unibrow
