Failure is nonexistent, keep trying

Emma's Enlightenments

This Week’s Advice: Failure is Nonexistent.  

Perfection is impossible. But this doesn’t mean failure is the replacement. 

As people, we make mistakes. We are not perfect beings. We are not going to perfect everything we do. 

Just because we don’t do everything perfectly doesn’t mean the only other option is failure. In essence, failure doesn’t exist. Failure is more of a thought than an act. 

Failure isn’t always a bad thing. 

What matters is trying. Crashing and burning is better than not moving at all. As long as you keep moving, failure can’t catch up. 

I experienced this when I thought I lost everything.  

I no longer had contact with someone important to me, school was overwhelming, and the stress of multiple sports was catching up to me.  

I was drained, and I started to give up. 

I wasn’t talking to friends. I wasn’t going out. I was just absorbed in what I was feeling. 

I felt like a failure. I worked so hard to get this far, only to be stopped by someone I cared for no longer in my life. I was stumped. 

It wasn’t until I realized that it wasn’t over that I began to fix myself. I knew I needed to fix something, so I stood up and got to work on the first thing I could think of. 

Myself, my decisions and my life. 

I became present with my friends again, graduated third in my class and started to be myself again. 

I broke the shell of a person I had become. 

This can relate to this upcoming week, as tests and quizzes are starting, because it is important to remember that failure is nonexistent. 

If you don’t do as good as you hoped on a quiz, you know what to study for the test. If you don’t do as good as you hoped on a test, you know how to study differently for the next one. 

Failure is more in your head than you realize. It only sends you in the right direction, so you don’t keep going in the wrong direction. 

Failure isn’t always a bad thing, and it is not something to beat yourself up over. It is a redirect. It is more of a blessing in disguise. 

In the long run, it helps you move in the right direction. 

This upcoming week, remember not to be too hard on yourself. This is a new era of life, it is going to be hard, and there will be hurdles. What matters is if you choose to jump them or run the other way. 

Don’t shy from trying; failure is all in your head.