missing the mark

If you have a treasure map you go to the X. You don't walk around it a few times, maybe see it from a distance, and then decide that this isn't the treasure for you. Quite on the contrary, you see it, and claim it for your own as soon as you possibly can, lest someone else does. For some that X marks success. Success in friendships, in your job, in your relationships, in finances, in goals and in dreams. For others success is such a far reaching concept that to feel solid in one, simply means another is on shaky ground.

Sometimes maybe you're just looking at the wrong map. Sometimes you might have the right map, but it's upside down and you're too stupid to turn it around. Sometimes.

But, who cares? The X might still be there. It might not. Either way that treasure won't stay at the bottom of the ocean forever. Even though the ocean is a cold, dark place — treasures are always found. Nicholas Cage would be out of a job otherwise.