{"id":15022,"date":"2015-02-02T10:18:50","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T18:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2015\/02\/02\/15022.html"},"modified":"2015-02-02T10:18:50","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T18:18:50","slug":"optimistic-pessimist-haiku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2015\/02\/02\/optimistic-pessimist-haiku\/","title":{"rendered":"Optimistic pessimist haiku"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A couple months ago, I was riding my bike home from work and I made some kind of minor interacting-with-other-people-in-traffic mistake (I don't remember now what exactly it was). Afterward, as I rode on, I composed a rueful haiku in my head:<\/p>\n

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Every day provides<\/p>\n

Fresh new opportunities<\/p>\n

For making mistakes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

...Alternate version of last line: “To make mistakes.” Which has only four syllables, which I found amusing in this context. But in my experience, making deliberate subtle mistakes to jokingly illustrate making mistakes tends to be misinterpreted, so I went with the above version.<\/p>\n

I suppose taking it out of the haiku form altogether results in a slightly punchier version, like something Jack Mantis<\/a> might have said: “Each new day is a new opportunity to make mistakes.”<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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