If you're not ready the moment things happen, then you're irrelevant, you might as well not go.
“If I felt that one of my operas did not come off I would certainly say so.”
“The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!”