Of Platitudes and Horse Latitudes
- Good things come to those who wait
- Rome wasn’t built in a day
- You can’t boil the sea in an hour
- There’s no I in team (“There is an ‘I’ in win.” -Michael Jordan)
- It was meant to be (then why did we bother trying to make it not be?)
- The definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results (sometimes you have to do the same exact thing many times to get the result you want — it’s called practice, persistence, perseverance)
- Time heals all wounds (how about losing a limb?)
- Such is life
- Forgive and forget
- People are our most important asset
- It is what it is
- What the mind can conceive, it can achieve
- Winners never quit
- What doesn’t kill me will only make me stronger
- I don’t want a team of champions, I want a champion team. (Note that there is an I in “champion team”)
- It takes teamwork to make the Dream work
- “C’est la vie”
- Hard work always pays off
- Great minds think alike
- Money can’t buy happiness
- Live each moment like it’s your last (not very pleasant)
- If at first you don’t succeed, try try again (maybe you should try elsewhere)
- Let’s not reinvent the wheel
- It’s not rocket science
- It’s all good
- It has to be somewhere (as if this helps you find something that’s lost)
- No offense, but…
- Work smarter, not harder
- (source: https://scottberkun.com/2011/what-are-the-most-annoying-platitudes/)
Perhaps platitudes like those listed above — and liek the ones that you have to try hard not to laugh out loud at when you hear them — have led to the creation of the pure awesomeness of Despair.com:
In fact if you follow the wrong or incorrect set of platitudes, you might find yourself at the wrong or even the opposite latitude of where you expected to be. Some people call those unintentional destinations the “Of Course Latitudes,” as in: Of course you ended up there since you never evaluated or thought critically about your inner dialogue or the latitudes you used as your daily mantra.
When the trade winds didn’t take ships and their crews on the planned route they had established, occasionally those people would find themselves in the Horse Latitudes.
Horse Latitudes? Isn’t that just another odd song from the Doors?
No. Horse Latitudes “ are subtropical regions known for calm winds and little precipitation:
The horse latitudes are regions located at about 30 degrees north and south of the equator. These latitudes are characterized by calm winds and little precipitation.
The horse latitudes are located at about 30 degrees north and south of the equator. It is common in this region of the subtropics for winds to diverge and either flow toward the poles (known as the prevailing westerlies) or toward the equator (known as the trade winds). These diverging winds are the result of an area of high pressure, which is characterized by calm winds, sunny skies, and little or no precipitation.
According to legend, the term comes from ships sailing to the New World that would often become stalled for days or even weeks when they encountered areas of high pressure and calm winds. Many of these ships carried horses to the Americas as part of their cargo. Unable to sail and resupply due to lack of wind, crews often ran out of drinking water. To conserve scarce water, sailors on these ships would sometimes throw the horses they were transporting overboard. Thus, the phrase ‘horse latitudes’ was born (https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/horse-latitudes.html).”
THE BOTTOM LINE
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If your friends on your social network saw pictures of you riding a horse or art that you have drawn that includes horses, and then they bought stock in a potential prize pony as is offered on myRaceHorse.com, or an actual horse (wild mustang from the Bureau of Land Management perhaps) — YOU’d earn a commission off of that purchase. If they bought any item from the pictures you uploaded, you’d earn money. That’s the magic of Homemaide.