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Why is it that whenever we are given instructions we immediately think of doing the opposite or find a way to do it differently?  Is it the fact that whenever we’re told to do something our mind wanders or is it just our fondness toward dispute?  The more specific an instruction is the more we wish it were vague.  The more ambiguous an instruction is the more we want to know.  I ask you to go right, you think left.  Do you go left or right?  Is right the same as left?  It is when you’re looking to the left of someone, because that’s really their right.  Is it right to correct someone who’s giving you instructions?  Instructions are given because a lead has to be followed.  In order to follow a lead, instructions have to be given, and sometimes in order for you to know if those instructions are correct or valuable is to not follow them and observe the consequences.  Do you try those first and expect to fail or do you fail expecting to succeed?  Do you succeed in failing because you can’t possibly fail at succeeding?  Is there a need to fail some of the time?  If failure never happens how do enjoy success?  Success is the triumph over failure, but failure is also a triumph over success.  Failure is a need.  Your eyes may fail, as you grow old, but they don’t really fail you.  They may just get worn out.  They succeeded in giving you sight for many years, but did you ever thank them?  Joni Mitchell wasn’t the first to realize what we’re given before it has left us.

  

Plato didn’t exactly get his assumption of democracy correct; but he did succeed in making us think about the plausible negative and positive possibilities it possesses - but c’mon, how many oligarchies are out there anymore?  South Africa was the last to try it, and perhaps they succeeded; but then how can apartheid really work in the modern globalization-enriched world we live in?  Civilization, as a whole, will continue its success, but it will never succeed.  If it were to succeed we would have nothing to look forward to.  Is space really the final frontier?

                                  

We fail and succeed, succeed and fail.  It’s as rhythmic as John Coltrane’s performance at Café Montmartre.  Accept failure, but don't expect to accept success except when you're in your final moments of life.  Realize alphabets may never be selfless; and your son, Tom, may one day have a grandson named Tommy Thompson.  You can’t be worried about failure when it’s inevitable.  You only have one life and no matter how you live it, as long as you get out alive, you will succeed.  While there is no definition of success, as it ultimately relies on self-definitive recourse and a vat of lineage resource, I can suggest a starting block with these four things you can attempt to omit from your everyday life - Regrets, Secrets, Lies, and Twitter.