The Buried Age (Star Trek The Next Generation, The Lost Years)

by Christopher L. Bennett

The events we remember most readily are the exceptions to the pattern of our lives.

You see failure as an aberration that must be undone, a state of affairs inconsistent with the way your life is meant to be. And so you keep striving to correct it until that cognitive dissonance is resolved.”

Narcissists always blame external factors for their failures and refuse to believe they did anything wrong.

“You still have the potential to do so much with your life. Are you ever again going to open yourself to those possibilities?”

Exeunt omnes.