Motivation is overrated.

I am a very naïve girl. I attribute it mostly to youth, and continue to hope that all this will be corrected with age and experience. But perhaps it's some sort of tragic personality defect that I will never be rid of.

My gullibility usually manifests itself in my attitudes toward romance, baseball, and various lovely aspects of human nature. I suppose I always expect things to turn out just as they do in a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, that is to say, quite well (with everyone singing in perfect harmony). A recent disillusionment occurred when someone who I've been exchanging nasty remarks with on a newsgroup told me that "Oklahoma!" (my third favorite musical of all time) is really about drugs and prostitution in the American Midwest. Since then, "there's a bright golden haze on the meadow" just isn't the same for me anymore. And, I won't even elaborate on the many crushing moments of disappointment that come with every baseball season. I'm not even talking about the Mets falling to the Braves for the umpteenth time, or the Yankees not living up to their payroll, but that whole steroid fiasco that continues to devastate my perpetually sentimental outlook.

Anyway, someone forwarded me a desperate site of demotivational material, and I absolutely loved it. It is just the sort of stuff that I need to set me well on my way to cynicism city (before Mr. Cashman and Mr. Minaya turn my hopeful optimism into morbid disenchantment once again). My favorite demotivators are about destiny - "You were meant for me. Perhaps as a punishment" and potential - "Not everyone gets to be an astronaut when they grow up." I also like the one about stupidity - "Quitters never win, winners never quit, but those who never win AND never quit are idiots." (If you are about to suggest that it's also an appropriate slogan for a certain baseball team from Flushing, hold it right there... and I know who you are!)

Well, they are all funny, so go check it out and have a depressing day.