Boastradamus

I know someone who I like to call "Boastradamus". Have you ever heard of Nostradamus, the person who made predictions about the future? Well, Boastradamus predicts the past. This person does so with the special superpower "hindsight" and their hindsight is always 20/20. Sometimes I laugh and think that 20/20 hindsight comes from peering out of the "other eye" or orifice, the one my honey calls the winkin and stinkin little brown eye.

Do you know any Boastradamus type individuals? They have the hallmark of saying things like....."I told you so." "Well, I said..." "If only you would have listened to me back...." "I already knew that!" "Been there, seen it, done it and all before you did." and my favorite "I know ALL about you".

Boastradamus is a type of Poobah. Many Boastradamus predictions act like a weather vane. They let you know that the fez is about to expand. When the predictions start, be careful and stand back. You don't want to be covered with anything should that fez explode. The fez gets extremely volatile when there is an audience. An audience will bring out other superpowers in a Boastradamus. Superpowers like his/her "fickle finger of credit and blame", the ability to "shame in a single sentence", the supermagical ability of "increasing in size in relation to putting others down" or ranking (of course with Boastradamus at the top of the heirarchy), "magical cloak of invisibility when responsible", and many others.

What I always need to remind myself when dealing with a Boastradamus is that usually the superpowers and expanding fez create a distraction from the "little man behind the curtain". Smoke and mirrors keep hidden the wounded, insecure "God/lowest creature on the face of the planet" real person. They sadly believe that they truly create all of the universe, even you, when things are going well, and everyone else is to blame, when things are going wrong. When I remember this it is much easier to retain my equilibrium and not take Boastradamus so personally.