‘Failure Shower’

“Where there is a will, there is always a way.”

We’re all in the same boat — although life seems to be just what you think it is. Some people say when life gives you a lemon, wing it right back and add some lemons of your own!

It’s right to think that all of life’s problems ought to be solved in 30 years with simple homilies. Obviously, a fool can think only foolish thoughts:

“He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing.” Epicurus.

Ok, kind words cost nothing. Do not give up; keep on your quest. When a flower doesn’t bloom, you need to fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower. Still, is this flower that blooms in adversity the rarest and most beautiful? Perhaps some would say yes, but it remains a flower like all the others; if it happens to be chosen, even domesticated, then yes, it will have a distinction in relation to the others, as the fox explained to the little prince. By being tamed, or captivated, something goes from being ordinary or commonplace to being special and unique… but “We only understand what we tame.” — the fox says that important things can only be seen with the heart, not the eyes.

Fortunately for us, we are not defined by what others think. I don’t say this because I’m broken; I only have a strange relationship with life’s…