sinners and winners

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My mother once commented that between sins of omission and sins of commission, she would choose sins of commission every time.

The implication was that when you make a mistake by acting, its lessons sink in as surely as barbed wire.

But when you make a mistake by failing to act, the parameters of that failure are blurred and uncertain.

I don't think this is a vastly-important point since exceptions can be found at every turn, but it has a broad-brush fitness in my mind...even in the face of beard-stroking observations that action and no-action amount to action.

With attention, any sort of action comes up a winner, but if you're as dumb as I am, sometimes a sharp kick in the pants helps.
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