bluntlysaid

Failure according to J.K. Rowling at the 2008 Harvard Commencement.

My favorite quote:

And many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. They can refuse to hear screams or to peer inside cages; they can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally; they can refuse to know.

I have a lot to say about failure.  I also have a lot to say about the veil of ignorance…but not today. I am tired.