[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]As a goal toward which to strive, it has utility.

As a requirement, a mandate that must be met, it’s a disaster.

Sailing upwind, one brings the bow up close-hauled, but not straight into the wind. Tacking port and starboard, one can get where he’s going. Were he to aim straight upwind, the boat in stays would go nowhere, except backward.

Even sailing close-hauled, if the captain cheats into the wind, his speed falls off, the vector in the right direction loses its speed.

In a world where effort continually improves if only to test and prove the thing accomplished, waiting for perfection is waiting forever, for Godot. It is far better to get very close, enjoy, and then move on to the next worthy quest.

A little failure, coming up a little short, a bit off the wind, is the true course of a life well lived.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]