THE A-Z OF FAILURES

How to Be a Failure (Part Q)

Making the mistakes, so you don’t have to

Photo by Brett Jordan on pexels.com. I have failed to Quit smoking lots of times. Now, I keep pictures of this on my organic tobacco to cover up the Government warnings because energy follows thought.

“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

Questions

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I have failed at lots of questions, of course, but this is the one that stings the most.

My mother used to put a word of the week up in our kitchen with the idea that we try and use it as often as possible to improve our vocabulary. The week that “seldom” was pinned up coincided with the week of a school geography test. I was so pleased with my response to the question: “Where are elephants found?” And I still can’t believe I didn’t get a point for: “Elephants, being very large animals, are seldom lost.”

Quests

In the 1990s, my children were teenagers, which is when they morphed into pompous creatures who thought they were better than me. At everything.

I’m not quite sure why I agreed to take them all on a Quest. A laser quest, no less.