I sat at my desk for more than 10 minutes thinking of a very good caption to follow this inspiring quote. I wanted it to be a personal story – of any time in my life where I’d failed in something but tried again in spite.
Yet it has taken me rather too long to recall a failure experience in my life.
That’s the thing about me. My wife says I have selective amnesia. There are certain experiences I don’t keep in my long term memory. It happens and I move on.
I recall one job interview I flunked in 2017. One of the questions asked was for me to share a failure experience & what I did. I babbled. Whatever I said didn’t please the online interviewer… But mehn, that’s me. I don’t keep memories of nonsense.
Needless to say, I didn’t get that job, but hey, I don’t regret not getting it. God knows if I would be who I am today if I’d gotten it.
Failure should never define you. Failure comes to help you learn your fallibility and your need for dependence on others and God.
Learn your lessons and move on.
Or as Dork Diaries would say, “Cry yourself a river, build a bridge and get over it.”
1 thought on “Attitude to Failure”
Food for thought. Failure is just finding a way that doesn’t work. It truly is an avenue to learn if we look at it that way and that way we won’t even remember the unnecessary details