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quotable_muse85 - Mr. Chips: "Silence! Silence! I'll have no more of it!"
John Colley: "No more silence, sir?"
- Goodbye, Mr. Chips
What is your breaking point?
Is there a time and a place, a circumstance under which your resolve and your willpower are measured lacking against some outside force? Every person has theirs, or so psychologists are like to have us believe. Push them to it, or worse yet, beyond it and their reactions are likely to take the most extreme and unpredictable turns.
Most people, I would wager, are likely to believe that their breaking point is a long way off, and that no matter the pressure applied to them, whether it to be their body, mind or spirit, they would be capable of lasting a good long while. They'd like to believe they're strong, and they might well be right.
But I have seen too many individuals have to face things beyond their everyday imaginings to expect one to really understand their breaking point. The mayor of your town transforms into a giant serpent. You must face a twenty-five foot tall demon with a snub-nosed revolver. The undead are resurrected before your eyes. Fire and brimstone literally rain from the sky. Your throat is cut, and you are abandoned by all you know. You must watch your son live another life. The greatest evil in the city takes the form of a law firm.
All right, you might not be terribly surprised by that, yes.
In any case, one is never really ready to discover one's breaking point. If you could know with certainty what it would take to undo you, then it would not have that power.
(259)
John Colley: "No more silence, sir?"
- Goodbye, Mr. Chips
What is your breaking point?
Is there a time and a place, a circumstance under which your resolve and your willpower are measured lacking against some outside force? Every person has theirs, or so psychologists are like to have us believe. Push them to it, or worse yet, beyond it and their reactions are likely to take the most extreme and unpredictable turns.
Most people, I would wager, are likely to believe that their breaking point is a long way off, and that no matter the pressure applied to them, whether it to be their body, mind or spirit, they would be capable of lasting a good long while. They'd like to believe they're strong, and they might well be right.
But I have seen too many individuals have to face things beyond their everyday imaginings to expect one to really understand their breaking point. The mayor of your town transforms into a giant serpent. You must face a twenty-five foot tall demon with a snub-nosed revolver. The undead are resurrected before your eyes. Fire and brimstone literally rain from the sky. Your throat is cut, and you are abandoned by all you know. You must watch your son live another life. The greatest evil in the city takes the form of a law firm.
All right, you might not be terribly surprised by that, yes.
In any case, one is never really ready to discover one's breaking point. If you could know with certainty what it would take to undo you, then it would not have that power.
(259)
