Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.
I was reminded of a saying recently, "Never finish a book just because you started it." This is really good advice and I must say I have started several books recently and abandoned them. The one I just abandoned today is Tim Allen's "Don't Stand Too Close To A Naked Man." It was entertaining but it is obvious that Tim and I have different outlooks on..., well on just about everything. I also abandoned "Soul Music" by Terry Pratchett. A friend recommended this and other Pratchett books to me. I tried, I really tried to like these books, but in the end, I chose not to finish them. But that's OK.
I have wondered recently if you could take that saying "Never finish a book just because you started it" and substitute other things in there for the word "book". I was actually pondering this as I was trying a new coffee shop we have in town. Coffee Junkies sounds like a place I would like so the wife and I went there. Perhaps I went on a bad day or perhaps they got a bad batch of beans in or perhaps, well perhaps something else happened that would explain just how truly "not good" this coffee was. I felt obligated to finish the coffee since it cost me $2. It is the same feeling I have when feeling obligated to finish a book since I have "invested" time into reading the first 100 pages or so. Ultimately I abandoned the coffee and we have not returned there.
Life is too short to waste it on bad coffee, or a bad book.
Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.
Jon
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