What your foes do
derives its significance or consequence from the way you react.
Therefore, rush through or past them as though they
were yellow and not red lights.
Don’t linger on them
mentally or verbally; don’t pride yourself on forgiving or forgetting them —
worse come to worse, do the forgetting first.
This way you’ll spare
your brain cells a lot of useless agitation; this way, perhaps, you may even
save those pigheads from themselves, since the prospect of being forgotten is
shorter than that of being forgiven. So
flip the channel: you can’t put this network out of circulation, but at least
you can reduce its ratings.
Now, this solution is
not likely to please angels, but, then again, it’s bound to hurt demons, and
for the moment that’s all that really matters.”
–Joseph Brodsky, On
Grief and Reason: Essays
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