Couldn't help but reblog this, given my propensity to think about things in terms of "a long enough timeline..."
Noted that the actual excerpt from the above linked post is: "On a long enough timeline, every decision is a success, in the "you learn something from everything" sense. On a short enough timeline, every decision is a failure, in the "you haven't accomplished your goals yet" sense."
The idea of course is that on an even longer timeline, every decision is a failure. Or a success. Whatever 300 years later happens to mean to you.
