Peanuts for your thoughts

[snecols]

“If you grit your teeth and show real determination, you always have a chance!”
-Charlie Brown

An inspiring quote at first glance, to be sure. Hard work, practice, and self confidence can make a difference.

But then, you really have to consider the speaker. Charlie Brown is a pretty intelligent child who has perpetually failed at everything he’s ever done for half a century.

So I pose this question. Is it motivating and inspiring that a character who has never experienced true success can still muster the stuff to believe, even for an instant, that success is possible?

Or is it hopelessly depressing that the bald boy doomed to fail forever is still just naive enough to think he might succeed, thus making each new failure fresh and painful?

 

[Tobes]

Well the doctors say he's responding well to the chemotheraphy now, so he has that going for him I guess.

 

[BlakBlastoise]

http://www.smogon.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3471952

 

[blarajan]

i'm allergic to peanuts =(

 

[Fatecrashers]

it's a pretty sure bet that charlie brown eventually committed suicide

 

[Byrne]

it's a pretty sure bet that charlie brown eventually committed suicide

Good god. I guess I've never really considered just how intensely emo CB was.

 

[Pernicious]

 

[Zacchaeus]

What's up with people and gritting teeth lately

Also I never found Schultz insightful like I did Watterson

 

[Minwu]

“If you grit your teeth and show real determination, you always have a chance!”
-Charlie Brown

An inspiring quote at first glance, to be sure. Hard work, practice, and self confidence can make a difference.

But then, you really have to consider the speaker. Charlie Brown is a pretty intelligent child who has perpetually failed at everything he’s ever done for half a century.

So I pose this question. Is it motivating and inspiring that a character who has never experienced true success can still muster the stuff to believe, even for an instant, that success is possible?

Or is it hopelessly depressing that the bald boy doomed to fail forever is still just naive enough to think he might succeed, thus making each new failure fresh and painful?

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