highly recommend keeping a small portrait of a historical figure who met a grisly end on your work desk. for perspective.
me: oh thomas cromwell, we’re really in it now. every day i get emails.
the postcard of thomas cromwell i keep on my desk: i was on committees with the duke of norfolk. and they beheaded me.
me: yep. good point.
me: cromwell. cromwell this post has got too big and famous and people are starting to misunderstand me on it.
the postcard of thomas cromwell i keep on my desk: oh no! you achieved too much fame and status? and now people are misrepresenting you? should we strip your lands and title? have you been beheaded?
me: YES ALRIGHT FINE
When I turned 34 I declared I had officially outlived both Alexander the Great and Jesus, and that my next target was Napoleon, who died when he was 54. I might need to procure a small portrait of Napoleon to provide me with perspective. “Oh, you’re anxious about an upcoming social event? I was at Waterloo.”
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