Today’s fortune: Do not follow where the path may lead. Go where there is no path … and leave a trail.
Lucky Numbers 12,20,37,44,36,8
Learn Chinese- Painter Hua-jia
You really get a lot of bang for your buck with fortune cookies these days. I like it. More product pushing companies should follow suit. Unless of course the suit is being worn by a middle-management ass hat in which case thou shalt not follow. So sayith the shepherd, so sayith the flock.
America seems to honor those who blaze a new trail; if the trail leads to greener pastures, if the trail leads to Death Valley, that’s a horse of a different color that you can’t lead to water. I equate this with people who have a gambling problem, and gamblers who are successful. Turn on the TV and watch The World Series of Poker, those are guys who gamble for a living, they have no problem, now take the guy who’s betting himself into bankruptcy, he has a gambling problem. At least that’s what ‘They’ say. I say his only problem is that he doesn’t win; no one has a gambling problem when they win. He HAS a losing problem, that’s what he has. But I stray.
As a whole we’re a messed up bunch, we expect success, we also admire those who went against the odds and came up winners, but we sneer at those that want to try. We pummel dreams of others when they tell us of their goals, Dream Pummelers, the lot of us.
I disagree with this, but those wiser always defend themselves by saying, we just want the best for them, we don’t want to see them fail. I’ve learned a few things in my tenure on the big blue rock we call mother Earth, and one of them is, that line of crap never accomplished anything in life that is admired. No one admires the common, it’s the uncommon that gets recognized, paid, and glorified. Common is best associated with peasants and colds, neither of which seems the place to hold company.
So in an effort to stay out of a hovel with a stuffy nose, go out and eat a cookie or go for a walk in the woods and stomp on vegetation, that should make the world a better place. Just don’t tell anyone until you’re done, they’ll Dream Pummel you in less time then it takes to say moo goo gai pan.
I’d like to take a moment to thank my R&D team for the term ass hat. It’s a good one.
Okay moment over, carry on.
