Opportunity Gets Captured and Used or it slips Away

Disregard is the usual reason opportunity slips away. There’s a lack of attentive awareness, a lack of caring, a lack of purpose. Your mind is slack, like a slacker.

Sometimes you just miss the bus that’s going to big deal place.

Sometimes everything is there except you lack the skill to seize that opportunity. For example I would like to make hatpins that display the many dimensions of effort and attainment, but I lack the skill of a silversmith. To make those hatpins you must have silversmith skill — sculpting in silver in miniature. I can conceive an array of hatpins that would be magnificent, but I can’t make them. My only artististic skill is watercolor and gouasche. So I could make a set of paintings, but not a set of hatpins.

I could collect a set of hatpins. And tailor them with various feathers, or tufts of fiber. They could be well made in silver by people who have that skill. The heavy loder green fabric for hats that sport such pins is common in Germany. It’s a simple style of hat, not a cowboy hat or a Robin Hood hat. More like a plain business man’s hat — but green, wool, heavy loder fabric. It usually does not have a hatband, but it does have a pin with feathers or fibers sticking out from it. That pin could display many themes, and one might seek to collect the variations that have been made. It’s like a coin collection, in silver, but not coins, hatpins instead. The hat would not be included. It is a standard thing, you can get a loder hat anywhere in Germany, Switzerland, or Austria.