When I Can't Means I Can't

There is a time when I can't means I can't. The problem occurs when we don't make the distinction between I can't and I won't. So, I got to the point in my summer online Math course when I just didn't have the time and energy and know-how to finish. Sad, but it was not a waste. It was a great review and learning experience. I learned that I could do Math which is something I never supposed. I have tested into a lower class and that will be good. The higher class was going to be too frustrating. This way, I'll have an actual teacher and the time to get the concepts down instead of cramming and then forgetting. Whew.

When we can't, we have to accept that there are options. And help is available. It doesn't mean we're excused. It means we have to be more patient and have more faith and press forward searching out all available resources. And we can learn humility. I like what G.K. Chesterton said about humility:

Humility is the thing that is forever renewing the earth and stars. It is humility, and not duty, which reserves the stars from wrong, from the unpardonable wrong of casual resignation; it is through humility that the most ancient heavens for us are fresh and strong.

And:
Whereas it had been supposed that the fullest possible enjoyment is to be found by extending our ego to infinity, the truth is that the fullest possible enjoyment is to be found by reducing our ego to zero.

And T.S. Elliot said humility is endless. I think it's as big as the universe. We all have a ways to go.