Don’t learn from your mistakes. Otherwise you become the sum
total of things that have gone wrong in your life. The remainder of the bad
experiences. The lowest common denominator of missteps.
Don’t arrive fifty minutes early to the airport for the next
two hundred and thirty flights because you missed one by five minutes. Don’t
stop trusting everyone when you were deceived by one person. There is nothing
as realism; there is optimism and the opposite. Don’t give up on giving
speeches when you gaffed on one. The result of errors is for you to understand
and not memorize. To enjoy greatly you have to suffer greatly. Do not take a
first aid box wherever you go. Do not make a list of things to carry because
you could not find one of them in the three hundred trips you took. Cast off
the bowlines. There is no new world to be found in the harbour.
It is the sign of old men. To wallow in faults and drink to
oversights. Reduced to the smallest result of your biggest slip. Only great men
make great mistakes. Rest of them just worry about it. There are little profits
in being a safe adventurer. It’s better to be original in at least the blunders
you performed. Do not become backup of a backup. A porter of power banks, spare
toothbrushes and ready to eat food. The person who carries extra movies because
he was bored once on a long trip. Trust your friends even after they’ve let you
down. Remember they did not let you down the other two million times. Multiply
the trust by what abides, don’t divide it by what was taken
.
Don’t become afraid while calling it cautious. Wear your
heart on your sleeve. Wipe it and put it back on when someone throws it in the gutter.
Look at the moon’s reflection in the puddles and not the craters in the moon.
Remember there are infinite moons out there when you can’t see yours. Don’t
save for the rainy day. Your backpack should be binoculars, photos and trinkets
you collected over the years and not mistrust, a spare charger and an umbrella.
Order Thai food again even if you did not like it in the last restaurant. Don’t
always go in what is recommended. People who tie up safety nets always land in
them.
Death closes all; but something before the end, some
work of noble note, may yet be done. Be youthful even if you are not young. Remember
the things you didn’t do also hurt as much as the things you did. Wounds heal
but regrets do not. Ten thousands ways how not to make light bulb is a
discovery worth making. You are no too old for this shit. Muscles weaken,
vigour does not. Speak up even after you were shot down. Take out your car the
next day you had an accident, think of the three hundred and sixty four days
when you didn’t. Take unfamiliar roads. Trust your gut over the butterflies in
it. Chase the butterflies. Trip and fall. Get up and leap but Don’t learn from
your mistakes.
Remember. We are not now that strength which in old days moved
earth and heaven, that which we are, we are. One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made
weak by time and fate, but strong in will.
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
P.S – Inspired by the Ulysses - Poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson
