FETISHES ABOUT "FIRSTS"
"Firsts" do not, indeed, cannot define finishes, any more than finishes define firsts. Each one stands uniquely in causality's chain, in reality's. A first fumble or failure does not define the future.
The fact that the iconic physicist, Albert Einstein, flunked algebra, as a school boy, did not prevent him from later discovering the special and general theories of relativity..
The dramatic idiom "Break a leg" means good luck in theater. It came from an actual occurrence in which despite an actor's leg injury, the show went on, ending in triumph!
So too is it with rookie, Kansas City Chiefs running back, from Toledo, who fumbled his first hand-off. But he went on to score 3 touchdowns and gain over 150 yards in rushes, in the team's defeat of the current , 2016-Super Bowl Champion New England Patriots in their hometown opener in Foxboro, Massachusetts .
"Fetishes about firsts" that are so frequently, and so inappropriately misused as some spooky indicia of future success in our media-driven era of fictional scripts, and false prophecies, are unnecessary. And deceptive. Often times in life a first try is not definitive. All songs have many notes. So, play on please! It is ancient wisdom , proverbial, that the first may be last; the last, first, ere the final curtain comes down!
Friday, September 8, 2017
"FIRST" FETISHES
FETISHES ABOUT "FIRSTS"
"Firsts" do not, indeed, cannot define finishes, any more than finishes define firsts. Each one stands uniquely in causality's chain, in reality's. A first fumble or failure does not define the future.
The fact that the iconic physicist, Albert Einstein, flunked algebra, as a school boy, did not prevent him from later discovering the special and general theories of relativity..
The dramatic idiom "Break a leg" means good luck in theater. It came from an actual occurrence in which despite an actor's leg injury, the show went on, ending in triumph!
So too is it with rookie, Kansas City Chiefs running back, from Toledo, who fumbled his first hand-off. But he went on to score 3 touchdowns and gain over 150 yards in rushes, in the team's defeat of the current , 2016-Super Bowl Champion New England Patriots in their hometown opener in Foxboro, Massachusetts .
"Fetishes about firsts" that are so frequently, and so inappropriately misused as some spooky indicia of future success in our media-driven era of fictional scripts, and false prophecies, are unnecessary. And deceptive. Often times in life a first try is not definitive. All songs have many notes. So, play on please! It is ancient wisdom , proverbial, that the first may be last; the last, first, ere the final curtain comes down!
