Does This Background Make My Blog Look Fat?

As you've probably noticed (if not, get your eyes checked immediately), I have added a quite stylish background to the blog. I've been trying to do this for a while now, and after numerous failed attempts, I finally got the HTML to work with me. Hope you all like it!

Speaking of which, I just had another random thought (you'll notice I have these types of thoughts a lot); where would we be without making mistakes?

I believe we would be nowhere without lots of things in this somewhat crazy life in which we live. For instance, what I mentioned in my last post; cell phones! And, what about money? I mean, honestly, what makes these small, green, rectangular pieces of paper so valuable to us, that we can't live without having them? And, of course, women; can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em.

But, I believe the most successful of us would not be where they are without making mistakes. Like Bill Gates; he didn't just wake up one day, and say, "Hey, I'm going to be a millionaire today." He had to actually work for it, and make some mistakes to get there.
And David Ortiz didn't just go outside when he was a kid, and play baseball, and hit home run after home run. He has to have struck out at least a hundred times since he started playing baseball, he didn't just randomly become great one day.

So, stuff like this proves that to succeed, you have to fail once, or twice in your life, no matter what it is you're doing. You may not get something the first time around, but with practice- and, unfortunately, studying- you'll become a nation-wide phenomenon, who hits home runs, or makes a million bucks.... or calls himself Fred.

Same with getting this awesome background on my blog; I couldn't get it right the first fifty times I tried, but it eventually worked!

I can't believe I got all of that out of adding a simple background to my blog.

Yours in awesomeness,
~Ry.

"To do something that you feel in your heart that's great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that's successful is a series of mistakes."- Billie Joe Armstrong, lead singer of Green Day.