Pickled Thoughts for Tea, IV

Hi guys~

Remember my previous post, Pickled Thoughts for Tea III? Well, here’s part two of the demotivation pix and my thoughts on it ^^

Again… be prepared to be bored out of your mind!Poster “Two” on the list: Tagline, Mistakes

“It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others.”

Hmmm… again, this seems to be a very demotivating sentence indeed. But then I look at the picture, and something about that sinking ship tickles the memory.

After all, what more-remembered sinking icon is there but the Titanic, which has become immortal because of the 1997 history-into-film love story about that doomed ship?

Titanic the ship is indeed a very good example of the words on this poster.

Have any of you read the most recent findings on it?

Please too refer to the following link for more info:

http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/discus/messages/5919/90876.html?1095986315

So. Makes you wince, doesn’t it?

But anyway. If that IS the case, then the purpose of the Titanic’s existance was indeed to serve as a warning to others. After all, its sister the Brittanic did not have the same flaws, as was discussed in The Age. Obviously, SOME learning was brought about by the results of that… event.

My deepest sympathies lie with the victims and survivors of that tragedy. After all, none of them were meant to suffer through all that!

But… to tell the truth, the Titanic was a mistake. If you scroll down this page by Ken Walters, you’d see the comment: “What really sank the Titanic? Bad engineering? Poor seamanship? Overconfidence? A number of factors actually. There are a number of great pages on the web that illustrate the building of the ship, it’s passengers, the disaster, and the aftermath, but none that really explain the reason that she sank.” Which means that it probably is a combination of all factors… right?

If the Titanic was doomed right from the beginning… if there was no other bright spot to be seen from its creation, other than a show of the good side of some people… then… as in the words of the ‘demotivation’ poster, “It could be that the purpose of [its] life [was] only to serve as a warning to others.”

With the prior example of the flawed design, planning and construction of this ‘unsinkable’ ship, a better version of it was engineered—its sister ships. And the floating vehicles after that were all improved upon and based on ‘what works’, fixing faults from ‘failed products’, and aiming overall to actually succeed in their operations.

Sucessful journey = no accidents = no lives lost = good. Right?

So… if you think that you are a mistake and that your only purpose is to be the flashing warning sign to others, sure, feel free to do so. And don’t take it too hard. Remember that by existing and if your existance would serve as an example to others, you at least will contribute to the welfare of so many more people; remember that there were many more before you with the same fate that we can thank and appreciate because they took the plunge and instructed us through their examples of what should not be done, so that those after them would not make the same mistakes.

I know that this seems kind of callous or cold hearted to say, but there is no success without failures. You can’t just do something without the example of previous people to base your actions upon. And it’s hard to know that you did something right without looking at what others did wrong.

So… what is this poster but another statement of the facts as can be concluded by some of the actions of others?

Feel free to comment ^^ I know I’m not making much sense… but hey. At least I sparked some thought in you, hey?

If it was a mistake to write all this junk, then at least let it serve as a warning to you… don’t write about something that you’re not passionate about, or don’t know anything about, or when you’re not thinking or focusing properly.

It turns readers off.

^^ There ^^ At least the existance of this blogpost has some redeeming virtue to it…