That timeline you gave a client that you hoped you could make but when push comes to shove was still quite optimistic, and in point of fact slipped by several weeks.
The songwriter wouldn’t have faulted a Green Beret for being optimistic in the face of risk, and maybe even failing sometimes. The message really was their whole being was invested in that timeline and making it happen, and you could be sure they would spend blood sweat and tears to give meaning to their words.
Yes, when circumstances change and make our "promises" unrealizable, that's not dishonesty. It's simply that we aren't omnipotent.
Any number of things could have prevented Kennedy's "go to the moon" promises from being pushed into the next decade. That wouldn't have retroactively made him a liar. (Other things like marital fidelity might have, but not the moon one.)
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The songwriter wouldn’t have faulted a Green Beret for being optimistic in the face of risk, and maybe even failing sometimes. The message really was their whole being was invested in that timeline and making it happen, and you could be sure they would spend blood sweat and tears to give meaning to their words.
Yes, when circumstances change and make our "promises" unrealizable, that's not dishonesty. It's simply that we aren't omnipotent.
Any number of things could have prevented Kennedy's "go to the moon" promises from being pushed into the next decade. That wouldn't have retroactively made him a liar. (Other things like marital fidelity might have, but not the moon one.)