star gazing

Why is it that when you reach for the stars that is when Fate decides to remind you that the ladder you are standing on was the one you forgot to remind yourself to mend last week and the whole thing comes out from under you. You are left flat on your back with the wind knocked out of you and Fate reaches out and takes that star like a five cent gumball and walks away chewing and whistling.

I am not sure if the lesson there is that stars are gumballs or that Fate can chew and whistle at the same time.

In any case .....

I learned not to reach for the stars a long time ago.

-mine .. borrowed with permission from .. me