National Poetry Month Day 23: Habits of Highly Confident People

So I punish myself for reading click bait list articles by writing a parody of them, and I decided to incorporate this one into NPM by making it a Ginsberg-style enumeration! Hopefully I'm not trying to do too much at once with this.

For just about everyone

I have seen the best minds of my generation destroyed by lack of valid self criticism, helpless, attention-starved, confirmation bias diets,

Dragging themselves through social media, filling out the bingo card of rationalization to do what they already want to do for a self-fulfilling fix,

From confident people, who never have their hands in their pockets, for people with their hands in their pockets are hiding from the need to take action,

Confident people, who spend no time contemplating jazz, they just get it and move on with their busy lives at the tops of cities,


Who maintain focused, unblinking eye contact through the entire conversation because they know they have overflowing dumpsters of nothing to hide,

Confident people who don't get distracted by people with really annoying laughs because they're too busy and focused constantly improving,

Who don't believe in the multiverse because they know they live in the dynamo Chelsea foothills of getting everything right on the first try,

Confident people who aren't afraid to take a vacation because they are confident that work will still be waiting for them upon their return, everything is relative between paint thinner swigs and blindness bare breasts,

Who don't spend any time thinking about whether or not to leave the toilet seat up in a public bathroom, regardless of gender

Who never need help or approval, because they know how much work they can get done and your opinion just gets in their way,

Who seek out unpleasant things and confront it on their time, not yours,


Confident people who are not afraid to ask for help when they need it and build consensus to get the task done,

Who won't quit because they know success is always on the other side of the every jackknife line where non confident people quit,

Confident people who have an objective figure for how much each of the or friends are worth, but will never tell anyone but the nearest Suzy-blended Glenn,

Who know when it is time to make a tough decision and cut their losses if something isn't going well,

Who don't notice passive aggression, because they always say what they mean, so if you are trapped at the bottom of a pit, don't acknowledge the absurdity of the situation with your tone of voice in your cry for help, because they won't hear you,

Only confident people can pull you up from the pit,

Only confident people can dig a true pit,

If you cant escape, then it's a true pit,

Confident people who have destroyed everything outside of the pit,

Who know there is nothing outside of the pit so they make the most out of their life inside of the pit,

There is no pit,

There is no pit,

There is no pit,

There is no pit.