My name is Ethan Holmes and if you’ve ever read anything I wrote you already know I don’t have an ordinary or ‘normal’ viewpoint about many things. Personally I think ‘normal’ is overrated. I’d like to have a talk with whomever is responsible for the definition of ‘normal’.
Here are a few familiar sayings and my take on them.
Think outside the box? What if there is no box?
I don’t want a bucket list. If I had one, do you know what the first item on it would be?
Get rid of the damn bucket.
My theory is, if it isn’t there, I can’t kick it.
“We have nothing to fear but fear itself!” Roosevelt
“Fear is the basis for every poor choice we ever made in our life.”
From, Live Your Life In A Crap Free Zone, by Ethan Holmes.
He’s a square peg in a round hole.
I don’t want to be a perfect fit for any hole, square, round, triangle. I’d rather be malleable.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Really? Ask the bird about that.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Unless you’re on prescription medications. “Sometimes the remedy is worse than the disease.” Francis Bacon
Let sleeping dogs lie.
Especially if it’s this one.
Don’t cry over spilled milk.
Unless you paid $5.99 a gallon for it.
Don’t burn your bridges behind you.
It means you would consider returning to a place you shouldn’t have been in the first place. That’s why you moved on.
Ethan Holmes is the author of five books. If you like what you read please follow his blog on the right side of this page.
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