"Try harder"

     How many times have we heard versions of "You can do better than that!"?
     We come to believe that nothing we do is good enough, that we are not good enough - right? If we're not good enough as we are, then we must try harder in order to be accepted, to be loved.
     Parents, teachers, and society can unwittingly collude to turn children into perfectionists in one narrow specialized field eg idiot savant health care professionals. Are many health care professionals that different from Tiger Woods or Michael Phelps, whose parents channeled into single-minded superstardom?
     Did these folks have the encouragement, or even the opportunity, to devote the necessary time and effort to become well-rounded, balanced human beings? Did we?
     Tempus fugit.

Chester Golf Club, Nova Scotia