life_style:

''You are not a fool if you loose what you cannot keep
to gain what you cannot loose''

life_style:

Thanks Cadet, i really appriciate your contribution, i must confess, i have been battling with this statement for the past 1 week now, i guess that interpretation is okay for now, but if there is still any meaning, it will be highly welcome, tanks

Isn't the statement rather too self explanatory & explicit even!?

michelin89:

It has some very important points:

1. Never overestimate yourself: it's good to be confident, but it's stupid to be stubbornly conceited. Trying to keep something you can't just to prove yourself has nothing constructive. There is no progress because all the time, you'll have to start all over again to regain it.

2. What you can't maintain is not yours. Forget that one day that thing will eventually decide to recognize you as its owner because believe me everything has a natural inclination. Whenever it finds the original keeper, it's gone forever.

3. Don't think you'll be or be seen as a loser if you can't keep what people expect you to. They are exactly like you. They are also battling to hold something not theirs tight but they are either too stupid or too proud to let go. Don't follow the flock sheepishly. Be Different!

4. Don't be demoralized because nothing ever stays with you. Just like you have lost something to its original owner, yours shall also come your way some day. Don't be too desperate and settlle for what isn't meant for you because when you do, there will no longer be space for what is rightly yours.

RichyBlacK:

Nice interpretation. However, the statement in bold is excessively reactionary. What is the point of being different for no reason? The phrase "Be Different!" has no qualification and comes off as a command.