I ask forgiveness. I am sometimes hasty in my passion, and popped off in fear.

Having poured through heaps of trash of art and literature, on occasion I'd discover a pearl.

I was Offered just such a Precious Gem, and Spat upon it with tormented rage.

I thus, accept my shame and endeavor to improve, however humbly I can manage.

Now I offer to you all, the strength I was offered.

http:// www.selfdiscoveryportal.com/arStockdale.htm

The Stockdale Paradox

by Art Ticknor

"I never lost faith in the end of the story," he said, when I asked him. "I never doubted not only that I would get out, but also that I would prevail in the end and turn the experience into the defining event of my life, which, in retrospect, I would not trade."

I didn't say anything for many minutes, and we continued the slow walk toward the faculty club, Stockdale limping and arc-swinging his stiff leg that had never fully recovered from repeated torture. Finally, after about a hundred meters of silence, I asked, "Who didn't make it out?"

"Oh, that's easy," he said. "The optimists."

"The optimists? I don't understand," I said, now completely confused, given what he'd said a hundred meters earlier.

"The optimists. Oh, they were the ones who said, 'We're going to be out by Christmas.' And Christmas would come, and Christmas would go. Then they'd say, 'We're going to be out by Easter.' And Easter would come, and Easter would go. And then Thanksgiving, and then it would be Christmas again. And they died of a broken heart."

Another long pause, and more walking. Then he turned to me and said, "This is a very important lesson. You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end – which you can never afford to lose – with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be."

ThanQ

Never Known a Leader Before.

I am Honored

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I recall something about profiting from the suffering of others.

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