Of intentions and results...

Economics has the "Law of Unintended Consequences";
Medicine has "Idiopathic" cause for a disease;
Budgets have a "Miscellaneous" line item;
What term does Life have to qualify the inexplicable or the unexpected?

When we set out to do something, and it never seems to work, do we give up with "It's my fate" or "It's my destiny" or "I am just not good enough"; When do we know its time to cease, to "realize" your weaknesses, to know when you are batting out of your league? Can we rise above our deficiencies (and million of dollars have been spent and made on that premise), and what does it take (Ditto on the millions here too!)? Books just don't cut it, they can never adequately describe the heartbreaking failures or the deep soul searching that one must go through before realization hits home...
When there is so much to achieve, so much at stake (not just in your life but in the lives of so many others), can a failure (or two) be the reason to stop and say, "no more"... Can I rise above the ego bruised by failure, and recognize that mid-course corrections are the need of the day, not a change of course... I have had it easy so far; are recent events the evidence of my cumulative difficult moments hitting me at the same time? Or was Peter right? I can only rise to the highest level of my incompetency? Jim calls it a "blip", and I trust his judgment implicitly, as mine is a bit screwy right now... *sigh* What does it take to do the good that you want to do? *sigh again*