It's Okay to Fail
At least once in your life, you are going to fail at something. Your talent, intelligence, hard work, and/or passion will not be able to save you. Failure is inevitable. Everybody has failed, although some refuse to admit it.
Don’t let them fool you. If you research the stories of the most successful people of our time, you’ll find they, too, have failed. In fact, it was failure that produced the success stories of people like Steve Jobs, Oprah Winfrey, and Walt Disney, just to name a few. So calm down. You’re in incredible company.
Without failure, we couldn’t become the people that we become in time. Failure is a part of life. It’s the very fundamental foundation that all life is built upon. We are who we are because of constant evolutionary failures. Through repeated iterations over millions upon millions of years, those failures helped to create human beings. While most of us might not be able to grasp the enormity of that statement, in the here and now, it’s more than okay to fail. In fact, failure is necessary.
While that doesn’t lessen the pain and the agony we must wade through when dealing with failure, it’s most certainly a means to an end. I cannot tell you just how many times I’ve failed and just how painful each and every single one of those times have been for me. These weren’t small failures; they were monumental. I felt so infinitesimally small during each one, but didn’t realize the life that it was setting me up for. I had no clue what awaited me on the other end of those failures. It’s funny how things work out that way. Long story short, it’s okay to fail. I found that the bigger the failure, the better it was.
Some of the reasons why i am grateful for the failures i have had are;
It helps to shatter the ego and instill a more value-driven approach to life that doesn’t exist when we’re riding life’s highs and succeeding.
Failure allows you to dig deep, submerge the senses, wrap the mind around the situation that led you there, and then, to bring you back through a source of gratitude for what you have rather than what you don’t have. That way, the mind lives in abundance rather than lack and you can use your situation to improve rather than deteriorate.
Failure emboldens the mind, making you stronger, giving you a mental toughness that doesn’t exist when you succeed.
Through failure, you learn life lessons that can’t be earned from success.
Failure makes you search for new ways to do things. Thomas Edison is famous for failing over 10,000 times to invent a commercially-viable electric lightbulb.
Failure makes you more empathetic to the plight of others. Empathy opens the door to building true value in the world. When we’re empathetic, we’re interested more in helping others since we can relate better to them. We experienced the pangs of failure and were right there mentally, emotionally and spiritually with others whom we might try to help.
Knowing that it’s okay to fail allows you to take more risks in life. While failure might hurt and people might talk, making us feel like specks of dust, it’s an inherent part of any successful person. People can only succeed through failure. It’s a platform for growth. It’s the driving force for all things in life big and small.