nurturing your cynic

A friend of mine says she is cynical. She says it as if she is not supposed to be.

I think cynicism is the beginning of wisdom, or at least one of wisdom's ingredients. It serves as an antidote to the fairy dust approach to life.

The trick is to not get embedded in it. Getting stuck in cynicism means one is still in the Elementary School of Cynicism.

If you are going to be cynical, you have to go all out, which includes being cynical of one's cynicism.

If one is to be contemptuously distrustful of everything, one has to be contemptuously distrustful of one's contemptuous distrust. And then of that too. And that too. And so on. Extraction ad nauseum. Detachment ad infinitum.

My friend is very talented and has a strong dreamer-seer-intuitive component. Her dreamer-seer and her cynic are doing a cosmic dance. Right now it is more of a slam dance.

As her seer and cynic learn to dance more comfortably together, she will have a coming out party like has never been seen. There is no one quite so powerful as a cynical seer, an intuitive cynic. One swings the sword of understanding, cutting through all manner of b.s., including and especially one's own.

So water your cynic, my dear. Give it some miracle-gro. Cynicism thrives on the miraculous.