Best of all worlds

I'm sure you have heard this before:
When one's lovelife is good, his career sucks
When one's carrer is good, his lovelife sucks

Well apparently the saying is applicable to all sorts of situations
I suppose even if one has everything going well and is ethereally blissful,
he can't help avoid invoking jealousy from miserable souls.

I was this close to becoming a grumpy senile when I sprained my ankle
Well, what worse can happen now?
Indeed, my luck changed.
Homebound for 4 days, I had a breakthrough on my work.

A silly but devastating mistake made months before had made my life so much more complicated than neccessary.
Being a stubborn pig in my line of work is sometimes unhealthy
cos instead of stopping and rechecking my work when things get too tough
I press on for weeks and week,
bashing through by shear undying brute force.

Nothing is 'too tough to handle' in my vocabulary
it's either solvable in minutes, or solvable in months.
Not a bright child, I must thank my mom for passing on this wisdom:

She once told me that nothing is too difficult for me to pick up
and I should never use my (lack of) intelligence as an excuse
If my classmates can learn their sums in 1 hour,
I can do it 2 hours and it'll still be done.
It's a matter of perserverance and not letting yourself off too easily.

So, matters of determination aside, I found out that
When one's ankle is good, one's work sucks
When one's work is good, one's ankle sucks

Now that the swelling has subsided,
I hope that the windfall at work can sustain just a little longer.
:)