- If opportunity knocks on your door, irrespective of how shabbily it may be dressed or the inconvenience of its timing, for God’s sake—Answer the damned door!!! If you don’t respond—And quickly!—to an unexpected overture, rest assured your visitor will move on to the next residence, and then the next, and then the next one after that, with the exact same offer he is presenting you. And rest assured of this: Someone will eventually open their door and embrace the stranger bearing unknown good tidings, and when that happens I don’t want to hear one fuckin’ utterance coming out of your mouth decrying your “bad luck” and how the odds have always been stacked against you. True opportunities rarely come gaudily and obviously attired like NASCAR race car drivers; they are majorly more discreet than that. But that doesn’t mean they are invisible and do not exist. To the contrary, they are very real. The simple truth is, you had your shot and you opted to pass on it. So live with that fact. Accept it. The opportunity you passively rejected went to someone else and you will not see it again in your lifetime.
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