Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Nobody wants to fail
I do not know of anyone who is comfortable with failure. It is bad enough to lose time and money but to be confronted with the thought that one had been rushed along a stream of events that one had little control over is very disconcerting. One begins to question one's judgement and the capability to make the kind of judgement that leads to success. Certainly, the world is awash with losers but the fiction in their minds is that is is not their fault, that something or someone has kept them from achieving their goals. This is not he idea that I have of myself and I always try to find out where it is or how it came about that I dropped the ball and failed to meet my goals.
However, between our intentions and the outcomes of our actions and decisions is a big gap and very often this gap is not understood very well. Call it bad luck or misfortune, call it sabotage or conspiracy, call it oversight or unavoidable circumstancs, the fact remains that they do happen to most of us. I had my share of losing and I often think that maybe I am one miserable failure. Maybe this is my lot in life, to suffer the indignity of falling on my butt most of the time. Still, the dust in my face is not my idea of the good life; something which I will never accept as my final destination.
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