We achieve greatness. It happens just once every year, when a small handful of lucky humans will bow their head in Sweden as someone of great dignity places a Nobel Prize around their neck. The Nobel Prize, some believe, is the ultimate recognition for humans acheiving greatness. But there are other, perhaps greater, accomplishments in this world. Maybe once in a decade a single, great human will hold up a test tube in a sterile laboratory, hands trembling in disbelief as he realizes he is about to cure millions.
Cures are rare.
But they are not the ultimate rarity in human acheivement. Perhaps twice in one century, there will be just one or two humans who truly know the exhalted triumph of making the perfect fishing cast. Such perfection is the absolute supreme acheivement among men. Nothing is greater than the perfect cast, which is why fishermen dream of such things for a lifetime. Nobel Prizes are nice, but everyone knows the world is full of smart people, which makes getting a Nobel Prize a little predictable.