There were a few areas of life in which I took a great interest: music, theatre, science. I think, in theatre, I would have liked -- if not to be "great" -- at least to be less mediocre than I turned out to be. In music, while I love to play the piano, I'll never play in a concert -- again, not good enough. I did pretty well in science, since I built a good career in Information Technology, with at least one invention that earned my company some millions of dollars.
But now, late in life, the one thing in which I think it might have been nice to be "great" is in reaching people who are obviously going the wrong way in the rabbit hole -- to frame my arguments such that they might pierce the armor of prejudice and dogma that, usually without factual basis, so grips so many people.
And in that, I think I've failed. Certainly, for all the writing I've done of RF, my successes have been very sadly less than stellar.
And then, I remember that such stellar minds as Gallileo and Copernicus couldn't convince the Catholic Church, whose leaders were the most educated people in the world at the time (the lowliest Catholic priest still has earned the equivalent of a Masters Degree in any accredited university). So maybe I'm not so bad -- maybe the ambition itself is unachievable, by virtue of human nature itself.
