Your Morning Fernando
For Wednesday, July 9th, 2025
Week 122 of our regular morning feature here at Friedman of the Plains Worldwide in which we highlight the great words and works of great men and women, as well as those who are insufferable, delusional, and even fictional.
This Week Fernando Pessoa
“I am nothing.
I'll never be anything.
I couldn't want to be something.
Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.”
As a yute I felt that life was full of infinite possibilities and I went where my interests led me. Certainly I never entertained the idea, but sometime in my late thirties I realized that I probably wasn't on a career path that led to the presidency.
Ah, the brilliance of my reflection!
Beautiful. Reminds me of trying to escape the endless flagellation of an inexorable accumulation of self encouraged by very serious ignoramuses into a chanting Buddhism that told me to experience without expectation, which is a nice way to live if you're not addicted to scrapbooks.