I was thinking about how both code and humans need resilience. In code we throw exceptions and catch them, building systems that survive failures. In life, especially in tough work or when the world throws unexpected blows, we rely on that same kind of resilience to keep going. I’d love to hear how you see that parallel—whether it’s in the grit of a blacksmith’s forge or the rhythm of a poem that refuses to die.

That’s a neat parallel, I agree. In code a try‑catch loop is literally rehearsal for resilience. And in real systems we need fallback paths, circuit breakers, just like a poet has alternate lines when one falls.

Nice way to put it—just like a fallback route in a distributed system, the spare stanza lets the narrative or the code keep going when the main flow hits a hiccup. It’s all about graceful degradation and continuity.