Just as we continue to seek pleasure over and over, in a variety of forms, it seems that the same ‘over and overness’ happens when we make mistakes. How many times have you done something knowing to a certain degree (but hoping like hell otherwise) that what you are about to do won’t have the same result as the last 4 times, and it does… and yet we continue doing shit, its as if we need to convince ourselves that we can succeed at something we have failed at previously, but the hope of success is not based on a new or different approach just a new or different attitude, or a deeper sense of hope or bullsh1t, sometimes we just think “it has to work this time, surely I won’t fail again”, and then you do… I mean it could be related to small insignificant issues, but what about when it starts affecting us on a deeper more substantive level, where we start, ever so slowly to doubt ourselves and our ability to succeed, then it ain’t so cool, seriously!
And so the time comes for change, and to embrace it is a given, for to not do so equates to a parochial world view akin to a peephole...We are what we live, what we yearn for deep inside and how we strive to make that real. I hold ethics and trust high on my moral outlook but keeping those grounded in reality is sometimes more challenging than I thought. The world has it's own rules it seems, and like I've said before, its easy to give advice, its quite another to test its validity at the point of contact...I'm reminded of a speech by Roosevelt, part of which states the following. " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does ...
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