It’s all about perspective.\u00a0 When I get down on myself for not doing enough with my life, all I have to is look around to find someone who, by comparison, makes me appear to be at the top of my game.\u00a0 Since I spend a fair amount of time in a bar, such people are not hard to come by.<\/p>\n
Saturday evening did not disappoint.\u00a0 I got to the Argus around seven, having spent most of the day either napping or puttering around the apartment.\u00a0 I didn’t need a drink.\u00a0 I didn’t even especially want one, but boredom and cabin fever sent me on my way.<\/p>\n
I’ve seen the man before.\u00a0 He usually orders well bourbon neat and never leaves a tip.\u00a0 Nor does he engage the bartender or any of the other customers in conversation.\u00a0 He just drinks until he’s either had enough or run out of money, then heads off to wherever it is he goes.<\/p>\n
At first, I made it a point not to stare.\u00a0 I had noticed irregularities in the man’s complexion that under the dim bar lighting, I had mistaken scribed to burn scars.\u00a0 When I referred to him as “Mister Crispy” to one of the bartenders, she set the record straight saying, “No, that’s the result of booze.\u00a0 Lots and lots of booze.”<\/p>\n
She was right.\u00a0 Allowing myself to gawk, what I saw was not scar tissue but an assortment of blemishes and broken capillaries.\u00a0 The damage was long term and self inflicted.<\/p>\n
It’s funny.\u00a0 When given a wakeup call, it’s so easy to turn it into a snooze button.\u00a0 Life is indeed what you make of it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It’s all about perspective.\u00a0 When I get down on myself for not doing enough with my life, all I have to is look around to find someone who, by comparison, makes me appear to be at the top of my game.\u00a0 Since I spend a fair amount of time in a bar, such people are … Continue reading Three Cheers for the Sad Cases<\/span>