I’ve seen many folks forced into low, laughable positions because they were afraid to get laughed at.
The hero’s predecessor is often the fool. The willingness to appear ridiculous is synonymous with the willingness to venture forth and acquire hidden treasures, which are recurrently protected by pride and obstinacy.
Dirty Sci-Fi Buddha 
Life is short! 😀
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So true! Some of the craziest ideas I’ve ever had turned out to be true.
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So we spend a Life getting something wrong, but we keep on keeping on. Maybe our book will never get published, maybe our particular computer programme won’t work, maybe we stay forever in one of the lower positions in a company. Maybe, maybe.
As long as we are trying….
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Plus, unless one is fine with resignation, that’s the only practical way to be.
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Resignation. I’ve often thought that might be a good option, then the thought gets howled down by a lot of others.
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Irony abounds, lol!
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Creation’s way of saying, in a friendly sort of style ‘gotcha!’
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I think that’s actually true in a deeper way than I could convey through words. It’s why irony stands alone in narrative, and even spawns a genre of its own. The look-at-me-I’m-so-clever irony propagated by hipsters isn’t what I’m endorsing, but you get what I’m trying to say, I think.
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I do indeed. There are sometimes words just don’t quite get there, but the meaning comes across.
Keep on keeping on.
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time and circumstances must be right to be wrong.
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Nicely put.
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