Failure

From 7-13-05
Failure... I used to feel as though it was my deepest fear. Everyone's always pushing to not fail, to not be bad... but where's the push to be great? Where's the push to be everything you can? It's not a question of being better than someone, it's a question of what you have left to give and how much more you have in you. I now look at failure in a different manner. Every failure is a chance to learn, with the chance of every failure comes a chance of success - and let us not forget that without failure, success would not be such a sweet victory. In climbing failure has an obvious manifestation. There is a wall... climb it... falling is failure, but without the presence of failure, ascending is no longer a feat - is no longer anything, merely a sure thing. Sure things do not test us, do not challenge us, do not make us challenge ourselves, and do not make us uncomfortable. Sure success is not a learning process... to me, it is failure.