Well, humor comes in many forms. Today, I laugh and cry at the same time.
I recently wrote a beautiful piece discussing failures and our response. As I clicked that little button to post, the website logged me out. I lost the entire post. I failed to post on failure. I see the irony and I snicker. However, I doubt I could rephrase my post as I had so previously done. So, I'm going to demonstrate what I said in the lost post through this post. The opposite of failure is not success. Success is subjective. Success can be circumstantial. I would argue that the opposite of failure is steady progress. Steady progress shows that you are willing to take the failure and turn it into something better. Steady progress tells me that I wasn't where I was before. To go from failure to success in one swoop could mean a lucky/unlucky moment. Not that there is luck, but simply that the circumstances surrounding the incident have changed in one way or another to bring about "success." If we are to continue forward in steady progress we show that we are growing and moving from that failure to become better. And each day it will become easier to move into a positive outcome and further from the failure. I fail daily. I say something stupid. I don't teach my kids well. I lose some item (not just my mind). But if I can acknowledge my failure and work to not repeat that failure, I am less likely to fail in that area and way again. That will infiltrate to other areas of my life. I can learn from my failures in one aspect of life, and apply knowledge and wisdom to not carry that failure over. It's okay to fail. If we don't fail, we don't grow. I wish I would have known that as a child. In a way, I did. In school, failure is not an option. In sports, it just happens. Someone has to lose. Athletes are taught to work harder, fight tougher, and get back up from the defeat. Education tells us, you weren't good enough. Try harder, or this test grade will be your quarter grade, semester grade, year grade. So how does that translate into life? You would think that the athletes would have a better time of it, or the brainiacs would always do well. The truth is, there are some failures that effort and hard work won't fix. And if the brainiacs aren't used to poor grades, they can't always handle a poor review. We need to be prepared for the fact that we might fail. We shouldn't plan for failure. We should work towards our goals. Yet, we should know that failure might occur, and we need to know what we will do in the face of it. Once we have our path set, we just push forward. Always making steady progress. You will fail. What will you do with it?
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