The Nobility of Failure

So that last thing I wrote? Big old problem with it. Big. And I don't mean the pretentiousness, because that's just a part of me, and someday somebody is going to find it endearing.* That's beside the point. The point is this:

Many, many jokes will fail. A few won't. A few will be beautiful, or they will grow to be. And if you kill them because they aren't perfect immediately, or because you're not sure they will be, that's a terrible loss. Try everything. Offend people. Fail huge. If you never fail, you're aiming too low. Keep going.

So, not a retraction, exactly. An expansion? An addendum? Something in the addendum genus.

This stinks of something I should be applying to life at large, but I'm sleepy and let's pretend this is all strictly business, okay? Okay.

-L


*I hope.