the voyage of the best ship is zigzag

'a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds...speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again,though it contradict every thing you said today....the voyage of the best ship is zigzag of a hundred tacks. see the line from a sufficient distance,and it straightens itself out to the average tendency'.
-ralph waldo emerson

hmmmm....you could look at life in general that way too...from a sufficient distance it straightens itself out...that is,it makes sense...perhaps.