Every misfortune is a blessing
I'd like some clarification on a few to be honest - do many hands make light work or do too many cooks spoil the broth? Is it better late than never or is that just shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted?
there's an art piece i remember enjoying seeing called truisms. it was one of those dot matrix led text displays, like you get in a train carriage or whatever, that was just fed by a massive database of 'truisms'. if you watched for a while, you started to notice how many contradictions there were.
here we go, jenny holtzer. a list, though obviously it was cooler seeing them scroll one by one almost painfully slowly: http://mfx.dasburo.com/art/truisms.html
hmm... it's trite, but i feel like making the observation that pretty often when something shit happens, you learn something or probabilities alter in a way that ultimately causes something good. i reckon it's how i tend to think of things. i think i get a bit too wound up about misfortunate without that idea.
obviously there are other well known proverbs along the same lines. maybe it's just psychologically useful. maybe if you look at the sum misfortune in the world (not just e.g. my small-time concerns) it's inaccurate and even slightly offensive.
feels odd to me trying to have a serious discussion about the merits of a proverb, but why not eh?
I guess the "every misfortune is a blessing" is just another way of saying "every cloud has a silver lining"TE]
Yet every rose has its thorn.
Yet every rose has its thorn.
here we go, jenny holtzer. a list, though obviously it was cooler seeing them scroll one by one almost painfully slowly: http://mfx.dasburo.com/art/truisms.html
I saw a similar thing in a little animation once, just as a joke though, that involved a 'platitudipus' - a huge platipus floating in the sky above London, with various messages projcted onto it such as "Today is the first day of the rest of your life" and "Cheer up, it might never happen!" in order to spread vague, anodyne 'good vibes' among the populace.