If you pay attention, you can tell a lot about a person by what ticks them off.
I hate slow Internet. I can’t stand spending money on stupid things. And I waste more time complaining about complainers than is helpful for me or the complainers.
These are the things that tick me off. Like a time fuse on a bomb, these are the things that control when, even how, I explode.
When I think of great men, though, I know the things that annoy them are far greater. Great men get annoyed by great things.
- Slavery
- Poverty
- Disease
- Addiction
- Loneliness
- Desperation
- Indifference
I don’t mean great on a scale between good and bad. I mean it in terms of grandeur or magnitude. The things that annoy great men are far more significant than the things that annoy me.
