Vae Victis
Have you prepared your victory speech? The one trumpeted after your graduation, your promotion, your humble acceptance of an award. It's the speech everybody wants to write, to deliver with élan, to be immortalized in some history book, to be worshipped by the inferior people looking up at you on your pedestal. So, have you already prepared your speech? Because I have prepared mine.
Cut to the chase. No funky perfunctory greetings here. Only self-adulation. Because if I'm to thank one and only person, that would be Me. The Me who resisted failure when failure was but a certainty, the Me who defeated defeat when defeat wasn't a possibility but an inevitability. The Me who stood by Me when all others' support wilted in the face of the all too human Ingratitude. The 'alpha male' Me who through the years finally believed in himself because nobody else believed in him. The Me who forged the best in Me -- the Corsarius -- even when all others thumbed their noses and stared their most disparaging stares at Me. And so I don't thank the unrewarding parents, the fair-weather friends, the royal-righteous-popular-heroic enemies of the maligned corsair, the blind fools who see the villain and not the innocent, the spurners, the skeptics, the critics, and the dogs which bite their feeder's hand. I thank only one person. I thank Me, I thank Me, I thank Me. Thank Me, and thank Me all. Thank you.
That's it. Others may write their own speeches. If they need to spend hours on it, it's fine. I'm done with mine.
It only takes ten minutes to self-adulate.
Cut to the chase. No funky perfunctory greetings here. Only self-adulation. Because if I'm to thank one and only person, that would be Me. The Me who resisted failure when failure was but a certainty, the Me who defeated defeat when defeat wasn't a possibility but an inevitability. The Me who stood by Me when all others' support wilted in the face of the all too human Ingratitude. The 'alpha male' Me who through the years finally believed in himself because nobody else believed in him. The Me who forged the best in Me -- the Corsarius -- even when all others thumbed their noses and stared their most disparaging stares at Me. And so I don't thank the unrewarding parents, the fair-weather friends, the royal-righteous-popular-heroic enemies of the maligned corsair, the blind fools who see the villain and not the innocent, the spurners, the skeptics, the critics, and the dogs which bite their feeder's hand. I thank only one person. I thank Me, I thank Me, I thank Me. Thank Me, and thank Me all. Thank you.
That's it. Others may write their own speeches. If they need to spend hours on it, it's fine. I'm done with mine.
It only takes ten minutes to self-adulate.
slipped from the pen of Corsarius at 1:19 AM
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15 Comments:
Ooh, that must've felt good! Maybe I should write a self-adulating speech as well...hehehe.
angas talaga nito!
just don't be too surprised that when you're done hopping and skipping down the path perfumed and petalled for your glee, you'll realize that you've always wanted to be alone.
to abster: I tell you, it's a good form of stress release ;) You should definitely give it a shot.
to ia: Maangas talaga 'ko. But from time to time, I can be downright humble :p Which anyone can notice by reading my posts.
this is not even a praise - a simple form of showing gratitude to one's SELF. love it!
Haha. I'm glad you saw it that way. Kind of lessens the "brutal and haughty" feel the entry portrays (my fault). Thanks! :D
i should have thanked myself first during my speech in HS. but no, i thanked the incompetent teachers! darn! hehe!
this is brilliant, corsarius! no matter what they say, we are still responsible for our own triumphs.
mine goes something like,
"..and to all the little people i've stepped on to get here..."
:D
to hera: you're actually lucky to have delivered a speech in HS, hah! :D thanks, hera.
to claudzki: i like that. that line should be in my speech. but then, you get first dibs on it. :D
i kind of do this all the time. it's a leo thing, i guess. but i guess you already know i like you for being so self-adulating. LOL!
it's a taurus thing, too. (not really, the Corsarius is just an exception.) and of course, the reason that i go back and back to your blog is that you self-adulate, too, hehe :D
The Bard expressed it this way, a long time ago:
"This above all: to thine own self be true"
But before one can be true, one must first know thyself. Then, only then, can one say a self-adulating pat-on-my-own-back i-love-myself-so-i-don't-give-a-damn-if-you-don't speech.
I guess you know the truth.
:D
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Well said, man. Though of course, from the eyes of some people (yes, the detractors of the Corsarius), this truth is a big, fat lie ;)
self-adulation.
i should try that.
to auroraborealis: definitely. but then, even the Corsarius can't pull it off twice..argh. i am without doubt not my own self these past days. see upcoming post.
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