"Never invest your self in anything so deeply that its failure could cost you Your happiness"
from "The Rule Of Four"
A quote i read more that a year ago in a novel 'The Rule Of Four' ,...which was about Princton university students who try to decode the mysteries of " Hypnerotomachia Poliphili " -a Greek illustrated book - & it was a so hard task.....!!
actually i didn't like the novel so much although it was recommended by more that 1 person,....but i remembered some quotes in it & this is one of them.
one of those students -Tom i guess- quoted that part from his mother when he was getting deeply in his hard task & forgetting everything else & when things got more & more complicated.
i thought about that quote more than once from different approaches ,.........some times i felt it may be demotivating to be controlled by the idea of the probable failure coz here one will not put much effort in almost anything as there is always the risk ,....it can b kind of cowardness or staying in the safe meaningless side all the time.....!!
other times i thought of the quote in another way,...i thought that it's about having balance in life,....having different dimensions to give a meaning for the human life,.....having various parallel things that backup each other in case of a failure or defect from any kind in any one of them......i.e : not being single minded even if it's for a good objective or cause as in case of the novel Tom& his friends put so so much effort in this thesis which affected or ruined other dimensions in their lives ,...so i thought about Tom's mum quote as a wise one to some extent coz it seeks parallelism & diversification in life that humans sometime forget in the cycles & races of daily life as if they r just searching for the "Hypnerotomachia Poliphili" mysteries forever .....!!!
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JF-champollion got himself killed that way ,in 20 years ,he lost a century of his lifetime !
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