If 'Plan A' Doesn't Work, There Are 25 More Letters To Go!!!

 

QUOTE If 'Plan A' Doesn't Work, There Are 25 More Letters To Go UNQUOTE [straight from the poster I pasted herein].  WHILE I am neither an Irish NOR a European, I have tidbits of information regarding that historical lesson tagged as the "IRISH MISTAKE", and that was way back 1845 WHEN Ireland bet its future on a single plant, that 'Irish Potato' a.k.a. Solanum tuberosum.  Such that, it grew quickly, resisted the cold and filled the stomachs of millions of Irish.  And for poor families then, it was the difference between eating and going hungry.  And history says that at that time, it looked like the Irish PERFECT PLAN!@#$%?

Sadly, skimming through a bit of Irish history, in a few weeks, a fungus called Phytophthora infestans literally blackened the Iris fields, the plants rotted, the crops vanished.  In a blip, WHAT had seemed like the safest solution in the world became a deadly trap and apparently, more than a million died and another million had to emigrate elsewhere.  BUT the saddest part of this footnote in the Irish history books is that this painful part of the so called Irish tragedy was NOT caused by the fungus BUT simply because there was a lack of variation.  NO PLAN B!!!

Swinging over to our daily lives, WHEN and IF we depend too much on a single thing, be it a crop, idea, plan OR even a person, we will be vulnerable and fragile similar to that Irish fungus WHICH wiped everything out in the Irish fields.  BUT again, this harsh lesson ISN'T just about agriculture.  It reflects in our daily lives as well.  Because all of us, in some part of our own lives, we tend to bet [sometimes] everything on one thing without realizing it.  And like that heartbreaking monoculture historical lesson in Ireland, it will fail and it will fail.  Sadly, that monoculture practice seems to permeate across countries and cultures.  And that dire reality is happening across all social classes as well😡😡😡

So, WHAT's that so called 'monoculture' we got to rethink?

WHEN we come up with a single PLAN to achieve a goal!

WHEN we craft a single approach/strategy to execute it!

WHEN we attempt resolving a problem with one approach!

WHEN we depend on a single person/entity on everything!

Our takeaway:  Doing a LOOKUP from my past years, at times we CAN'T be faulted if we get misguided by [wrongly] hoping and believing on one variable OR factor because in the past, that worked perfectly well.  LIKE as an example, you had a close and trusted buddy WHO always helped extricate you from challenges.  BUT one day, despite all the good faith by your trusted buddy, he may falter and fail in helping you out.  To humbly share with my readership, often I would have [at the very least] 3 PLANs, e.g. A, B and C because there is even that remote probability that both Plans A & B will falter.  YES dude, IF PLAN A DOESN'T WORK, THERE ARE 25 MORE LETTERS TO GO😀😀😀