Thank you for writing this! Failure feels so hard in the moment, but it reminds me to stay soft and to stay grounded in gratitude. It reminds me how beautiful it is to try and to yearn and to fall and to try again and again. I am grateful to be an active participant in my life. <3
As someone with a deep fear of failure, I needed this 🤎
I’m learning that success—whatever that may be, or if it even truly exists 🙄—simply cannot happen without failure. So the way I like to think of it, the more failures you experience, the closer you probably are to the place you want to be!
Thank you for sharing this, what a necessary essay to put out in the peak of hustle culture!
I love that. Failure teaches us that we don't have to be perfect all the time. There is room for error and it's absolutely okay to fall short sometimes. The place between failure and success is where the most growth occurs in life.
If there's something failure has taught me, it's that everything depends on the timing of your assessment. What is failure now won't be so two or five years from now. It'll either be the lesson you needed, the path you should exit, a redirection, or the success where losses come first.
We'll fail, but only in the short-term. In the long run, there's simply no such thing as failure.
This right here is key. I love that you say that there is simply no such thing as failure in the long run. Our experiences, including our failures, shape us into who we are and the ones who aren't bothered to pause and evaluate that failure are the ones who truly suffer.
I also try to remind myself that we can only control part of the outcome but then some things are far from our control - maybe it depends on timing and chance, maybe part of the outcome depends on another person or maybe it's something else entirely. But then all I can do is do my part - study for that exam, show up and talk to that person and always do my best so that at least I know I tried and if I failed there's still growth and experience to be taken from that :)
That's a beautiful way to put it, Marta. Over the years, I have come to realise that our "success" depends on two things: hard work and luck. Hard work is what we have control over. Doing more of it will give us the satisfaction that we didn't let ourselves down. The other (very small but extremely crucial) part is luck. If something is not meant for us in a particular moment, we won't have it no matter how hard we tried. That's just how life is sometimes. But can always be satisfied that we gave our best if we only focus on working hard.
In my experience, failure has always led me onto a better path, more aligned with my interests. When things haven’t worked out how I hoped or expected, there’s always been a silver lining, with alternative options coming to light.
Holly, thank you so much for taking out the time to read and share your valuable insights. I agree with you. No matter how many goals we set and how hard we try, sometimes the outcome looks different than what we had expected. But it's not necessarily a bad thing. Failure, in my life has always redirected me to something more beautiful, something I never thought I could find in my life.
This is a beautiful reflection. It takes courage to revisit moments of failure and see them with gratitude. Those experiences often become the teachers we didn’t know we needed. 💛✨
Thanks for sharing. Failure is hard, especially when there’s not really a plan b but I guess all we can do is keep hope alive
Absolutely agree Xandra. Showing up is truly what matters, especially when the future looks uncertain. It is a game changer.
“Failure taught me that it isn’t the opposite of success, it’s part of the path to it. Every setback carries a lesson that shapes who we become.”
Agreed!
Thank you for writing this! Failure feels so hard in the moment, but it reminds me to stay soft and to stay grounded in gratitude. It reminds me how beautiful it is to try and to yearn and to fall and to try again and again. I am grateful to be an active participant in my life. <3
You are embracing being. human, isn't that the most beautiful thing ever?💕
As someone with a deep fear of failure, I needed this 🤎
I’m learning that success—whatever that may be, or if it even truly exists 🙄—simply cannot happen without failure. So the way I like to think of it, the more failures you experience, the closer you probably are to the place you want to be!
Thank you for sharing this, what a necessary essay to put out in the peak of hustle culture!
I love that. Failure teaches us that we don't have to be perfect all the time. There is room for error and it's absolutely okay to fall short sometimes. The place between failure and success is where the most growth occurs in life.
A beautiful one, Mansi.
If there's something failure has taught me, it's that everything depends on the timing of your assessment. What is failure now won't be so two or five years from now. It'll either be the lesson you needed, the path you should exit, a redirection, or the success where losses come first.
We'll fail, but only in the short-term. In the long run, there's simply no such thing as failure.
Thank you for your time Patrick.
This right here is key. I love that you say that there is simply no such thing as failure in the long run. Our experiences, including our failures, shape us into who we are and the ones who aren't bothered to pause and evaluate that failure are the ones who truly suffer.
I also try to remind myself that we can only control part of the outcome but then some things are far from our control - maybe it depends on timing and chance, maybe part of the outcome depends on another person or maybe it's something else entirely. But then all I can do is do my part - study for that exam, show up and talk to that person and always do my best so that at least I know I tried and if I failed there's still growth and experience to be taken from that :)
That's a beautiful way to put it, Marta. Over the years, I have come to realise that our "success" depends on two things: hard work and luck. Hard work is what we have control over. Doing more of it will give us the satisfaction that we didn't let ourselves down. The other (very small but extremely crucial) part is luck. If something is not meant for us in a particular moment, we won't have it no matter how hard we tried. That's just how life is sometimes. But can always be satisfied that we gave our best if we only focus on working hard.
In my experience, failure has always led me onto a better path, more aligned with my interests. When things haven’t worked out how I hoped or expected, there’s always been a silver lining, with alternative options coming to light.
Holly, thank you so much for taking out the time to read and share your valuable insights. I agree with you. No matter how many goals we set and how hard we try, sometimes the outcome looks different than what we had expected. But it's not necessarily a bad thing. Failure, in my life has always redirected me to something more beautiful, something I never thought I could find in my life.
Serendipity has a way of finding us, doesn’t it? 💕
This is a beautiful reflection. It takes courage to revisit moments of failure and see them with gratitude. Those experiences often become the teachers we didn’t know we needed. 💛✨