Keep Your Powder Dry

Keep Your Powder Dry

Let's talk straight here.  To KEEP YOUR POWDER DRY means you are always ready for anything that comes your way, be it a challenge or an opportunity.  From time to time, an opportunity suddenly pops up.  Could be a new business venture you can consider.  Could be an OJT chance for an enrolled student.  Could be an opportunity to reconcile and fix a relationship that's been in limbo.  Could be that opportunity for a project offered for you to manage although it means relocating to another country/location.  Just one too many options.

Why then do you need to KEEP YOUR POWDER DRY?  While this idiomatic expression has evolved [even literally], it still points out to our READINESS to grab an opportunity that was never planned or expected, something that just randomly pops-up  More often, such opportunities do not look enticing on the surface.  It may have been dangled not in the best manner such that the opportunity may appear as a 'step back' instead of a forward-looking step. 

Frankly, being NOT READY anytime won't be acceptable.  Being POTENTIALLY READY maybe acceptable but to me, that is akin to NOT READY because in life, it all boils down to BLACK or WHITE, an AYE or NAY.  I bare witness [on first hand basis] to various lost or missed opportunities of people I know first-hand but they blew up their chances simply because they failed to KEEP their POWDER DRY.  Too bad there's no way to recoup the losses arising from those missed opportunity but in $$$ terms, they were huge losses that even negatively impacted lives.

Yesirreee, life happens even before you're ready. As a first-hand account, I have witnessed various missed chances.  Someone had a job offer with the letter offer sent in black and white.  Why was it missed ?  Because he had to renew his passport and time was running out, phew !  The frustrating part, advices were given way way ahead of time for him to initiate his passport renewal.  And what did that lost opportunity cost him ?  Potentially, it costs and impacted his future no less.

Yes, this is brutally true.  IF YOU WAIT UNTIL YOU'RE READY, YOU'LL END UP WAITING YOUR ENTIRE LIFE.  Indeed, when we see someone missed an opportunity because he didn't KEEP his POWDER DRY, it's not only pitiful and lamentable, but it leads one's situation to become no less miserable, pathetic and pitiful.  Lesson here:  Always KEEP YOUR POWDER DRY.❗❗❗