WELCOME TRAVELERS OF THE HALLOW WOODS (October 18, 2024)— So I've be thinking or pondering rather about the difference between success and failure. For example, if I began a paragraph with the word "pondering" instead of "thinking" do I succeed in inducing a more profound start to whatever it is that is to follow? And if so then would not I negate any said success by obsessing and reflecting over my word choices after they have already been finalized, as such would undoubtedly be highly anti-climatic and kill any profoundness that such a choice in verbiage might have granted me to begin with?
Probably so.
But I remind you that while I may be the one expounding upon such a trivial point my good reader, you are still the one taking the time to read about it. However, this is not all bad as such is what makes you a “good reader” to begin with. For if you were to jump ship at this point then you wouldn't be a very good reader, now would you? No, I should think not. For it is the very act of reading that makes one a good reader, but on with my point.
So, perhaps, instead of describing one as having failed would it not be just as accurate to say one, “optimistically overestimated their chances of achieving a particular goal?”
