The old joke goes…
How many psychiatrists does it take to
change a lightbulb? None. The lightbulb has to want to change.
After an exhaustive 7 years study, I have arrived at acceptance. I have labelled without permission and have learned patience and tolerance.
I am humbled.
Dennis Mantin
Change was inevitable. The story arc dictates… Act 3
I have been honest to the best of my abilities, avoiding bullshit and political correctness and I now see the benefits of the passive aggressives that I have loathed with passion and destain for decades and I now enter the phase of the Actor.
Will I be good?
I will be GREAT!!!
I have studied at the feet of masters. Be present! Be in the moment. Breathe
I will muddy these waters…
Listen.
Dennis Mantin
This can be controlled. This is where the power rests, waiting for that moment under the glare of center stage.
THE DIOGENES MOMENT
“I am looking for a man. I am looking for an honest man!”
“I am the great I am. I can grant you whatever you wish. What is your desire?”
” Can you please get out of my light.”
Dennis Mantin
It’s not the lies we tell one another that are the tell; it’s the lies that we tell ourselves and believe them that are the tell for those that have an intuition for a con.
Bullshit does not baffle brains to those that are aware and are not taken in by emotional embellishments.
“How will I recognize Fear?”
“It talks very loud and it talks very fast.”
Dennis Mantin
Most of our problems according to the late great Joseph Campbell stem from our FEAR of dying.
Once you accept this inevitable fact and realize that there’s nothing you can do about it, then you are at the beginning of dealing with this UNREASONABLE FEAR.
I fear pain. This is a reasonable fear.
I know the evil that mankind is capable of because I know me.
I am witnessing a dishonestly at a world level that I could never have imagined or predicted and the fear mongering that exists on the world wide web is appearing unstoppable.
Dennis Mantin
I was familiar with the darkness of the human heart long before I called Toronto home.
It’s not that I didn’t buy the victim tears or the aw go shucks all apologies smiles…I just have intuition for a con… The con is part of the human condition much in the way breathing is or being shy.
One of the gifs of being shy is you develop exceptional observational skills.
A man blames women for his inability to get laid and kills 10 strangers in a rental van.
A gay man who dresses as Santa Claus and works with plants and flowers is a serial killer of other gay men, cutting up their bodies and burying them in planters.
Smiles and kind soft words aren’t doing it for moi.
Dennis Mantin
J.K. said, ” If you don’t have your health, you have nothing. ”
His yellow stained fingers trembled the long ash from his cigarette to the tray. He was in his eighties and maintaining a 40 of rum a day habit.
This is a man who would know.
Dennis Mantin
2 seperate 6 year olds have drawn my portrait… They don’t know each other and the similarities are quite remarkable!
I have connected and that ship has sailed… it’s been nice, however I feel about this the same way I felt about Mash and Barney Miller in my youth…
This is it? I’m sitting around wasting my time and life, waiting for the next episode of this?. Fuck that! I am disconnecting.
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Dennis Mantin
10 years to go before retirement… God be willing!
I’ve been blessed for 20 plus years to work at a job I don’t loathe.
The first 20 were the tough ones.
Eddie Langille was right as I set out from the farm… ” Remember, the first million is the most difficult.”
Dennis Mantin
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