Nice Try, but Do It Again

The painstaking art of calligraphy: every stroke a dance, every character a world. This intrepid artist had invested hours crafting a tapestry of more than 200 Chinese characters, each one a little marvel of precision and grace. But then, as if guided by the hand of artistic tragedy, it happened—a wrong stroke at the very end. The ink bled, and so did this artist’s heart.

This is like building a house of cards, reaching for that final, crowning piece, only to sneeze and watch the whole thing collapse. Now what? Start again? Maybe it’s a lesson in impermanence, or perhaps the universe’s way of saying, “Nice try. Do it again.”