Nothing Stinks Like Failure

Success has a wonderful perfume about it. Lavender or rose. There is nothing rancid or rotting about being successful, even if it only only the level of success that means you have a house to call your own and don’t depend on the state for any of your income.
On the other hand, reaching the age of 70 and having nothing to look back on but a life earning the minimum wage and getting all your pleasure from drugs, drink and vice stinks, and not just because some of these people don;t feel the need to wash.
Failure has an awful odour all its own.