| json_metadata | "{"app":"Musing","appTags":["question","life"],"appCategory":"question","appTitle":"What quote or saying do people spout but is complete BS?","appBody":"<p>This question got me thinking for a while and after hours spent thinking on it and being unable to come up with anything, I realized that for the most part I seem to agree with most of the popular sayings.</p><p>I mean when you come to think about it there IS a reason they're popular, right? I doubt they'd be so common in the first place if there wasn't at least some truth to them that a lot of people are able relate with. </p><p>While I was answering a question earlier though I stumbled upon a saying that I can say I don't FULLY agree with. And this is the popular saying that: </p><p>\"OPPORTUNITY COMES BUT ONCE\".</p><p>I should start by saying that I totally understand why people say this and what they're driving at, but I can't help but feel that whoever came up with this is a tad bit guilty of grossly exaggerating just to drive his point.</p><p>This point being that when you have an opportunity you should try your all to seize it right at that moment. To make us understand just how imperative this is--that we grab it at the moment--the inventor of this saying chooses to tell us that without seizing it, there and then, it will NEVER come again--which is very false.</p><p>Opportunities do come again. And even better. Opportunities missed might in fact turn out be an opportunity to get an even greater opportunity. You may miss an appointment and feel bad and almost kill yourself just because you feel it might never come again, only to get an even greater offer the next day and be glad that you hadnt tied yourself down with the previous one.</p><p>Which is why I say there really is no blueprint to life. We try our bests to come up with this watchwords and tenets that drive us, only to act as a GUIDE to our actions. they're not something that should be seen as ABSOLUTELY true and ABSOLUTELY the same in every given scenario.</p><p>If anything what should be taken from that saying is to try our bests and do everything in our capabilities to make sure we seize our opportunities when they come, but it will be totally unadvisable to give up or throw in the towel just cause of a missed opportunity. </p><p>Related to this is the saying that opportunity lost can never be regained. This might be true to an extent. That is, once you lose an opportunity you may never get THAT SAME opportunity again. Fine. At least this one isn't trying to generalize by saying ALL your opportunities can never be regained. What it's just saying is that a particular opportunity lost can never be regained, but perhaps a better one could come--or not.</p><p>Which, again, I repeat, doesn't mean you should relax and sit languidly waiting for another opportunity to come. Try your bests to seize that one and even if you fail you'll be satisfied with that knowledge that you did. </p><p>As a conclusion, anyway, I'd like to say for me the best version of this sayings I like enough to repeat myself is the one that says:</p><p>\"OPPORTUNITY IS AN IMPATIENT VISITOR\". </p><p>This is true in almost every cases. It may come again, it may never come again, butwhenever it does, an opportunity is never going to wait for you to stop snoozing before it leaves!</p><p>Cheers.</p>","appDepth":2,"appParentPermlink":"f3q4c28h5","appParentAuthor":"eagle42","musingAppId":"aU2p3C3a8N","musingAppVersion":"1.1","musingPostType":"answer"}" |
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