Monday, July 18, 2005

Sour Grapes.....

A highly optimistic way of looking at things. Instead of regretting or repenting over what had happened, the "grapes are sour" paradigm does wonders to one's psyche. When someone wants something badly, and that same something doesn't happen - then what can one poor soul do? Just make this good old claim of sour grapes and carry on. A rather difficult thing to do, but then much better than wallowing in excessive self-pity.

5 comments:

Maharaj said...

Yes sir.

KT said...

Tough to do that,but yes at times most of us do it,but deep down we know that we have lost there.

Rangakrishnan Srinivasan said...

Maharaj : Yes Sir.

Phippogriff: Triumph and Defeat is all in the mind. Who knows? We might be thinking of it as Defeat, but maybe a few years down the lines, we could consider that Defeat to have been a victory of sorts. Our faculty of understanding is so so limited.

Anonymous said...

Ranga..I agree with what you say...
Success and failure are separated by a very thin line...
More often than not, what we once thought to be a failure leads us to other things which ultimately bring us success !

Rangakrishnan Srinivasan said...

Shalini: true, very very true. who defines success?? and what does success really mean to you?