It may not mean much to him now, but there's a quote from Douglas Adams I've thought of when things happened that changed the course of where I thought my life would go.
"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."-Douglas Adams
that quote is tres apropos for my life.... Missed USMA by one person (first alternate, nobody dropped from Beast early enough that year), which eventually led me to SF NCO.... more happier for me... I'm not sure I would have made a good officer.
Plus why do I care about how the cow happens to be? I really don't care that she walks, she talks and she's full of chalk. What's that all about?