Try, Try Again
A person I've known for a long time has always said, "Trying is a noisy way of doing nothing." I've never agreed with that decree. It's not so easy to disprove when you're ten years old, but as an adult, I have looked around my home life, my work life, my friend life, and especially my writing life, and I see people putting forth herculean efforts. Doesn't that spirit of constantly attempting to bring a task to fruition constitute the word trying ? Sure enough, the simple definition of try over at Merriam Webster states: to make an effort to do something : to attempt to accomplish or complete something to do or use (something) in order to see if it works or will be successful to do or use (something) in order to find out if you like it Let's concentrate on that second bullet point for a minute, shall we? (Yes, that means go back and read it, please.) That second point implies that the outcome of our attempts is never guaranteed to be successfu...