I’ve heard and read a lot of bullsh1t about “doing your best”.
Plenty of great quotes about it, really…here’s one of my favs:
(paraphrase, I don’t wanna look it up) “Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and f@ck the prom queen.” – Mediocre Dreckheimer flick.
Sounds really cool, like it could slide into ‘Pulp Fiction’, really great sound bite(sp?) and all, but it’s horsesh1t. Just like all the rest of them.
Truth is, the only people who think “Winning Is Everything” are losers, scumbags, and egotists.
The difficult thing is…your best is a LOT more than you probably think it is.
“I tried my best.”
“Did you win?”
“Doesn’t matter.”
“It matters to me!”
“What the fck do I care?”
…
– “…To say dying without attaining one’s aim is a foolish sacrifice of life is the flippant attitude of the sophisticates.”
– “To die without gaining one’s aim is a dog’s death and fanaticism. But there is no shame in this. This is the substance of the Way of the Samurai. If by setting one’s heart right every morning and evening, one is able to live as though his body were already dead, he gains freedom in the Way. His whole life will be without blame, and he will succeed in his calling.”
– Hagakure
And if you interpret that as morbid, you simply don’t understand.
Because it’s deep. 20,000 Leagues Deep.
-Puppy >.< Yip!