“Did my blind spot contribute to the defeats?”
Sure, but don’t get hung up on it. That delays the learning process. I may change my mind later- I have before- but nearing 60 I think the purpose of life is mostly accepting what fools we are.
Thanks for your positive note. I am hung up on what exactly caused these failures, blind spot or not, and I don’t have much time or rather opportunities left to try again.
Thinking about it and taking photos, as I do every day, I remembered the phrase “ships that don’t come in”, and had to find its source, which of course was a country song so titled by Joe Diffie. It’s on YouTube, check it out. Lyrics on cowboylyrics.com A lot of folk wisdom in it.
http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/diffie-joe/ships-that-dont-come-in-3999.html