Zen Pencils by Gavin Aung Than for January 01, 2024
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It is not the critic who counts. HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAMES OUR LITTLE ASTRONAUT! Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled. TAX ACCOUNTS JAMES FOX CONGRATULATIONS SENIOR ACCOUNT Or where the doer of deeds could have done better. Everest expedition The credit belongs to the man in the arena. Whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood. Who strives valiantly. Who errs and comes short again and again. Who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement. And who, at worst, if he fails… …at least fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls… ZZZ …who know neither victory or defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt
From Not Always Right;: Starting A New Year Revolution
(It is New Year’s Day. The restaurant that I work in closes its dining room at 10 pm because of this. The manager has informed me that she’ll close it sooner if no one arrives. At 8:30 pm, a customer comes into the store, orders, then takes a seat. I go to clean a nearby table, since it is quiet.)
Customer: “Ma’am, what time do you close?”
Me: “We’re closing at 10 tonight. Maybe a bit sooner if it’s quiet enough.”
(The customer gets a shocked look on her face. She starts packing up.)
Me: “Ma’am, what’s wrong?”
Customer: “I don’t want to hold you up! You have to go celebrate the New Year with your family!”
(I convinced her to relax and stay, since it was over an hour until we would close. However, since then, the customer comes at nights through the drive-thru, not wanting to hold up the dining room!)
Not my story