Flat Earth

It was da Vinci I think who is attributed with the quote, "It is a poor pupil that does not surpass the master". Anyway the flat earth philosophy is a fear that, instead of society progessing with every successive generation, it suddenly regresses.

Now on a parallel note I was musing over how every cover letter I seem to improve upon it a little bit which led me to ponder whether I would ever reach a stage of perfection, where there was nothing left to improve, or whether I would merely think I had reached a perfect stage but in say five years time I would look back on my cover letters and shake my head at how young I was. My essays in highschool for example seemed perfect at the time, they certainly accrued the requisite grades but when I was at uni I would gaze over them and shake my head. Ditto in a few years time over the HD essays I had written in first year, etc.

But today a dialysis tech job appeared, a job for which I received an interview last year but did not get the job, probably because I was on the cusp of finishing my degree. Thus I figured if I used the exact same cover letter again, with relevant updates of outdated statements, I should again get an interview where I presume to fare better.

Loading up my cover letter I expected to be shaking my head at how naive I was but instead it was the opposite: this was better then some of the stuff I had sent off lately as it still had a touch of optimistic exuberance about it that my current letters, whilst formally correct, do not possess. It seems instead of improving I've been flat earthing! Hah! Well at least my eyes are open now!
Avanti!

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