The desire to achieve greatness
And now for some serious stuff
We all recognize it: the desire to achieve greatness before one's death, to somewhat lessen the meaninglessness of one's short earthly life by granting oneself immortality in the halls of collective human memory. Few are the people for which this desire becomes reality. Some achieve it by producing great works of art, others by breaking ground in the field of science, yet others by their skill and might as conquerors.
For those of you who has always wondered, "how do I become something great?", I have compiled a quick guide, consisting of three different approaches to the problem. Remember that none of the approaches is a guaranteed way to achieve greatness: each requires the hard work and/or dedication of the subject (that is, you), and even in that case, circumstance may rob you of your rightful reward. This is to be viewed as a guide, as a few friendly tips from one aspirer to greatness to another.
- Hard work: this is perhaps the most straightforward approach. Simply work, work, work until that elusive greatness is yours. The pros of this method is that it's tried-and-true: most great people throughout history used it. The cons is that it's quite tiresome.
- Dumb luck: some people just happen to be in the right place at the right time. If you wait long enough, you just might find yourself to be one of those people. Like Peter Parker just happened to get bit by the radioactive spider, so too may you just happen to walk into the path of greatness. the pros of this method is that it's simple; it requires little or no work on your behalf. The cons is that it's really hard to control. Dumb luck has a tendency to afflict exactly everyone but you.
- Being granted a boon by a fairy: the fair folk knows some pretty far-out magic. If you can find a fairy and maybe, I dunno, save its life or something then greatness is sure to be yours. This approach has the great benefit of relieving you from the hard toiling of the "work" method and at the same time not being as random as the "luck" method. All you gotta do is find a fairy.
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That's why I eat so much penguin dust. Serves them well, the floppy bastards!
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Yes, of course, if we talk about _powder_. But now we talked about _dust_, which is, of course, something else, much in the same way that a labyrinth is different from a mace; the earlier is a construction of pathways arranged in an intricate pattern to make it difficult to find one's way through it, whereas the latter is a large club. Dust is also a large club, only in the form of very small particles and not really related to clubs at all.
As will start to become clear over the next few days, the "Fairy Boon" method isn't quite as cut and dried as one might think...
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