Lessons of Failure

Failure isn’t always an end. It is but a subheading, not a chapter in the book of life. Subheadings make points, as do failures.

Failures have many purposes. They let you know what you’ve done wrong and what went wrong.

Sometimes, failure can be a relief. 

Anyone who has ever done something they really didn’t want to can tell you regardless of an outcome, at least they are done with it. Even if it’s something you worked hard on. The fact that is over and done with can be just as rewarding as the satisfaction of success.

Failure can steer you from the direction of misery. Case in point, my most recent failure:

I worked on something that I was passionate about that took up a good deal of my time and patience. I worked and worked on it, until my patience with the project was beginning to wear thinner and thinner. 

At one point, I thought I was done with the project. But it was brought to my attention that it needed more work, much more detailed work than I had originally put in it.

I was already over it, but I had already invested so much time into I felt that I had to see it through. Whatever passion I had for it was burned up a long time ago. I begrudgingly continue to work on it even though I was screaming on the inside. 

Then a delightful little mistake happened. I don’t know how it happened, but every thing I updated was gone and I was right smack where I had started. 

A wave of just screwitall overcame me and I just deleted the whole project. 

I was so over it, so done, and I was so relieved that I everything I worked on just up and vanished so I could focus my energy on something I had interest and passion in.

The moral of this story is just because something has taken a lot of your time to create doesn’t mean it deserves your time if it no longer kindles your passion.

Failure can make you grateful things didn’t turn out because it can make you realize where you want to passions to be applied to.