…..how cruel the gods!!! How fickle is fate!!! How confoundingly tragic the fabric of life!!! If one could possess only a trifle of the knowledge one accrues with advancing age to complement the surfeit of confidence one is invested with in youth, that lethal combination would create a gigantic, unstoppable, irresistible force! There is nothing—Yes, positively NOTHING!!!—a person weaponized with both prescience and brimming self-confidence would be forbidden from accomplishing, oftentimes with astonishing ease. Yet sadly, just as the one quality boldly advances, the other lets out a plaintive whimper as the antecedent to a disheartening, irrevocable retreat. How terribly unfortunate and ironic this pitiable situation truthfully is!!! Or…..could it be the two traits are somehow directly inter-related, and that their relationship is by nature an inverse, interdependent one…..???
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