23 April 2007

How to Deal

When is failure not a failure? When it leads to a success that could have come about in no other way. When is a success not a success? When its ultimate upshot involves a failure that might otherwise have been avoided. We are crazily cavalier about our use of such prematurely. At the moment, you can't possibly know whether it's good to be losing or bad to be winning. Time may well cause you to re-evaluate everything that you think you understand. Meanwhile, you're about to acquire a temporary reason to celebrate. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

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