Posted 30 November 2009 - 04:12 PM
First day at work tomorrow. Couldn't sleep last night, I recall still being up at 5 am. I don't feel tired. Not much of anything, quite frankly. It's like if my body turned Turbo Mode on, I'm alert and thoughts are racing like crazy... I don't think I'll sleep much today either. But... finally something real to do. Yes, you can have too much spare time.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.