My New Expectations

First that 1 and 1 make 2.

Second if I have $5 in my hand at a hot dog stand, I could get a hot dog.

If it turns out that everybody else now feels that 1 and 1 are 17, I will not have far to fall. I will not harm myself from disappointment.

If it turns out, there no hot dog for $5, I will do without.

I will not be shattered. I will not become despairing.

My hope that somebody would buy my patent still abides.

Somebody might need that patent to vastly widen their moat.

It does contain both fluorescent and digital signal processing claims.

It would vastly widen the moat held by Raytheon, IBM, Crane, De La Rue, CITI, Chase, or UBS Credit Suisse.

The patent worth about $20 Billion in the right hands.

I want to sell it for $20,000.

No luck. I might have erred thinking 1 + 1 is 2.

I just did not know it is now 17.

I wonder how much I will need to get that hot dog.

With no beliefs, hopes, or expectations I don’t have far to fall.

So a small bump will not shatter me.