After several attempts/takes, the director said "shot okay". The hero and the rest of the crew were relieved and everyone sank in their chairs.
Then came a voice in somewhat low and shaky tone which fueled up the director's anger and hero's frustration.
The voice was from the Cinematographer who uttered "I Missed the Take" --> MISsed-TAKE --> MIS-TAKE
Essentially, the cinematographer was lost somewhere and forgot to switch on the camera and thus has become the greatest enemy for the rest of the crew at that moment.
For some it might sound silly or stupid as they could argue that they can always go for another take. However, its only them who are in the situation can understand how big the MIS-TAKE was, after a day long shoot with zero productivity. At the same time, it was not the intention of the Cameraman to miss it anyway. It just happened beyond his control.
Actions upon one's instincts yield different results. These results can sometimes be fruitful or otherwise. If it were really fruitful, the whole world including the person himself, justifies as a smart decision.
Based on the result, a feeling like smartness or dumbness kicks in. This feeling is an aftermath of what has already happened. This so called feeling positions oneself as superior to some and inferior to others. We often hear many referring to someone as a smart person.
Why is that person really smart??. Its just that his actions worked in the right way which other dumb guy couldn't understand/predict beforehand. Its a relative feeling to either acknowledge our inability and call the other person smart or expose the other person's inability and call him dumb. This so called relative deceitful feeling is either ego or jealousy.
The truth is, even the person doing the action is not sure of what he is doing. We only hear from someone like "I made a smart choice or I made a mistake, but never(at-least in the world that I live) hear " I am making a smart decision or I am committing a mistake". In the best case, former might happen but no fool would knowingly commit a mistake.
But why does anyone commit a mistake?? According to me, I can think of two reasons. Either the person is completely blinded by everything around it and has full-faith in what one intends to do OR did not do any kind of homework about the possibilities of failure on what he intended.
Both the cases, the opportunity to TAKE a probable right decision/choice is MISSED and hence ends up committing a MIS-TAKE
However, one would never learn unless either he experiences personally or through others. Life is a learning process. One failure/MIS-TAKE does not and should not kill the very spirit of trying.
As Great Thomas Alva Edison quoted "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
I would rather see myself try and fail than to drive my strengths from other's failures
