Almost

Something my dad told me a long time ago….

“ ‘Almost’ only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades and atom bombs.”

Simple statement, yet profound.

My dad told me this after I had been doing something, had not finished, and made the excuse that I almost finished but got tired of working on it, so I quit. He didn’t elaborate, just let me think about it. I wound up finishing whatever it was. I’ve since come to equate “almost” with “half-assed” for an abandoned project.

How many times have you accepted “almost” from others? Or, more importantly, from yourself?