My Nanna used to say,
“Nothing beats a failure but a try.” Sure that's true... slow and
steady wins the race and all that crap. But a lot of times I think
failure gets a really bad rap. If you never fail then how do you ever
learn?
When you were a baby did
you pop out of your mom and just start running? No! In order to learn
to walk you had to lift your head, roll side to side, sit-up, wobble,
bounce, stand, step and walk. I assure you to learn all of that, to
finally master walking you had to fall on your ass a lot!!!
Failure teaches us
something new every time we screw-up. Does that mean make a habit of
it? No. Repeating the same behavior and expecting different results
is the textbook definition of insanity. How though does one measure
lessons learned and the long journey to success if not by failure?
In AA we say, “will not
regret our past neither wish to shut the door on it.” I was a
severe asshole, so why wouldn't I regret that? Because it took that
screwed-up person to make this spiritually healthy person. Had I
never mis-stepped I might have never realized that there were other
people on earth but me. I might just have ambled along thinking that
anyone who ever screwed-up in the least was a heathen blight on the
face of humanity. I had to fall down in order to learn what getting
back up was about.
While it is true that you
can't hit bottom until you stop digging, there is much to be learned
from failure about success. Also it is from failure that we learn to
teach others and help a brother out when needed!
That's my side of it,
Angel
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