Children and open doors

If you're going to fail, you should at least fail when you're trying, rather than because you were too scared to try in the first place. If you were brought up to expend a lot of time and energy thinking about everything and making sure you had researched every angle before embarking on any kind of project, the big danger is that you fail to spot open doors. Or perhaps you spot them, but they light up all your defence mechanisms.

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Huey Lewis was right

A friend of mine attended an old school reunion recently, where he ran into numerous friends of very ancient standing, some of whom were more interesting than twenty years ago, some less. But he was most moved by one particular person of whom he had been particularly fond some while ago. Both had been married to others in the meantime.

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