Failure is not final, nor is it fatal.
I was given a gift as a young boy that I only recently realized. I was taught at a young age how to connect with people and how to care. I let my life slip by when I didn’t realize that I stopped caring. I stopped connecting with people. The bonds of friendship are strong, but only if they are truly there to begin with. Time has a supernatural way of proving all things to be temporary. Why is it that we make connections only for them to be smashed to oblivion later on. I only can imagine that it’s the human condition. Are we just passing time, or is there some reason.
Nothing is preordained in a matter that you, nor I can reference. I’m a heavy believer in that all things are for a purpose, but why are these “purposes” never clearly depicted. Why did I stub my toe…was it to learn a lesson on how to walk, or was it just because the stool was there? What was the reason that I was betrayed by my best friend only to repeat his very same mistake? What lesson was learned from the pain of the past? Will I one day wake up with some profound thought that connects everything together? I highly doubt it. Nothing I’ve done in my life has been more influential in my development than the things that I failed at. I failed at being a good friend, I’ve failed at being a good person, and I’m sure you could say I failed at relationships, but what did I take away from all these failures you might ask. One and only one thing; I’m the only repeating factor in the things I fail at.
Time has a supernatural way of proving all things to be temporary.
This tells me that if I don’t repeat my mistakes, and I don’t let them keep me from what waits for me ahead my life will be successful. For me the only true way to know success is to first master failure. A great man once said “Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.” – Theodore Roosevelt
