Do We Really Need To FAIL?

 

WHO needs FAILURE?  Germans would exclaim Mich!  Mir!  And in Spain it's Mi.  BUT WHO needs FAILURE?  It's like a bullet in one's head BUT here's the stark truth.  FAILURE is inevitable OR unavoidable in our life.  As an analogy, I like to think of failure as the necessary underbelly of success.  In the absence of FAILURE, HOW would we determine then WHAT our successes really are?  That might sound like a simplication and I do concede that FAILURE ISN'T that easy.  YES, I've been through that, ugggh💚💛💜

NOW, if someone would ask me if I would have opted NOT to go through FAILURES [if that was an option], I'll protest and exclaim 'NO WAY'.  WHY?  Because I am cocksure enough that I learnt one zillion lessons from all the FAILURES I have had in my life.  And the reasons are as logical and as rational as it can be:

• FAILURES made me know the chinks in my armor
• FAILURES made me resilient to face humps ahead
• FAILURES pushed me to learn lessons I would have NOT learned from anywhere else in this world

NOT to downplay the fortunate situations of the scions of the rich and famous [I can probably name Baron Trump, the 19 year old son of U.S. President Donald Trump] BUT I'm very sure that if we do an apples to apples comparison, at that age, I learnt lessons a thousand times more than the lessons learnt by Baron Trump [at his age now].  Admittedly, I'll say I am blessed enough because I had much harder lessons than this scion has gone through [and it's NOT his fault BTW].  WHERE else could I have learned those lessons BUT from my FAILURES???

Truth is, overcoming FAILURE is a very important barometer of our agility as it's NOT about FAILURE itself BUT WHAT you do to bounce back [from the grave].  YES, I have to admit that WHENEVER I did get hit by one FAILURE after another, accepting that FAILURE should be as natural as it should be that is, IF we handle things rightly [BTW, there are one too many horror stories WHERE a FAILURE is followed by one fumbling act to another]💥💥💥

Our takeaway:  HOW I did was quite difficult to translate in concrete words BUT WHAT I often did was to strike the balance, picking up the hard lessons from the FAILURE and rectifying the way I did it so that WHERE possible, I WON'T repeat the same mistake [BUT alas, I had a couple of mistakes WHICH I repeated [stupidly of course until I realized that enough is enough].  One mistake I'd like to openly share here in my early FAILUREs, I tended to wallow [and that was unproductive] as belatedly, I realized that FAILUREs are opportunities in disguise.  So, I asked myself, do I really want to miss opportunities spelled F-A-I-L-U-R-E?  Of course NOT😡😡😡