A-listers

A good friend called me today. He’s done well for himself but went on his usual rant, cursing the fact that he was born on what he calls ‘a small, isolated island’. I told him that, once again, he was displaying an attitude which I call the ’DCG complex’ and reminded him of Malta’s one major advantage: quick, easy fame and that beautiful feeling that ‘you are someone special’. All you require to be an A-lister in that pond is a penchant for self-publicity. And the people who, in faux exasperation, refer to the place as provincial, petty and small aren’t likely to get out of there any time soon. Lilliput suits them fine, too.

Moral of the story: It’s better to be a big fish in a small pond than a small fish in a big one (even if the small pond gets on your nerves)

I know what I’m talking about.

But I’d better go, Zsuzsanna’s getting impatient. Egeszegedre.