Mark Twain is quoted as saying, “Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.” The point, I think, is that we should strive to be getting better all the time, rather than sitting around waiting for a magic pill that will get us to the finish line instantaneously.
Every once in a while I will deviate from my standard policy and read some comments on a YouTube video or other internet post. I will never cease to be amazed at the willingness of complete strangers to weigh in with the most subjective criticisms imaginable. I don’t know where the term “trolls” came from, but I like it. It conveys the image of some semiliterate, untalented nobody lurking in his basement (which is to say, his mom’s basement), lobbing ill-conceived and ill-informed mortar fire at people who are actually doing something with their lives.
Maybe it’s American Idol’s fault. …
