The Million and One Mistakes

are not your biggest mistake. It’s that you are on the verge of repeating them,

one after another, consciously this time because, after all,

they didn’t destroy you the first time around. So why not

tempt fate and, anyway, who can differentiate a mistake from its opposite,

whatever that may be. You just might pull through again

or get it all right this time without even trying

provided, of course, you are not stymied by that one

in a million mistake that does you in for good.