Ruminations...

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
--Michael Jordan

So...yeah. There is that. Seems particularly fitting this month. If I was a glass half-empty sort of guy, I would have looked at 2008-2009 as 24 wasted months; the most egregious period of sustained failure in my entire life. But I tend to believe everything happens for a reason.

I didn't always. After my father died, I lost faith in God/YHWH/Buddha/Odin/LRonHubbard and the universe itself. I ceased believing in that "things happen for a reason" line. But maybe--just maybe--they really do.

Maybe the key is to never stop learning, and to keep an objective lens pointed upon yourself; not your words but your deeds. It's easier said than done and is sometimes rather painful. I have regrets over the last year, for sure. But I never have to regret not saying how I felt; that was one lesson I learned the first time around.

And life is good, my friends. So good.

Cheers.