Lincoln Was An Optimist

Law #9:  Pleasing everyone is an impossibility.

Personally, I hate the word "impossible".  I prefer "improbable".  Sorry, but impossible applies here.  You see, in order for everyone to be pleased consensus must be reached.  However, there are people who are simply incapable of moving with consensus.  Those who do are either ostracized or ignored in modern society.  People only start to pay attention to them when they reach a consensus comparable to the previously established one.  Add the fact that consensus is relative to location and this law's accuracy increases exponentially.

So where does that leave us?  Well just because we can't please everyone doesn't mean we can't please a lot of people.  And really, who cares about pleasing EVERYONE (except for politicians but they do a fair amount of fibbing for their living)?  How about pleasing YOURSELF and the people you care about the most?  There are people who are going to gripe and complain no matter what you do so you should really just live for you.

By the way, here's Abraham Lincoln's complete quote:

You can please some of the people some of the time all of the people some of the time some of the people all of the time but you can never please all of the people all of the time.

***Disclaimer*** If it pleases you to break the laws of modern society I hope you'll be pleased with your jail cell.  Just sayin'.