Hurray for Failure!

We have a tendency to avoid and dislike failing, so it tends to get a nasty reputation. I’d like to put my two cents in and stick up for my buddy Failure – we’ve coexisted happily for quite a long time.

Failure first introduced himself to me in school in Geography class. At the time I wasn’t really receptive to his company and wanted him to just go away. But he didn’t. He came back into my life over and over again.

It really wasn’t until 11th grade that I started to accept Failure's company. I wanted to draw pictures. Failure decided that he likes pictures too, and wanted to stick around with me while I drew. So my pictures came out ugly. But that year my relationship with failure shifted slightly: I liked drawing more than I disliked Failure.

So we hung out for a long time drawing pictures together. Failure taught me a lot about Art, and after a while my pictures got a bit better. In time they got better and better and eventually Failure decided that he didn’t want to hang out with me any more – at least while I was drawing. He said that he didn’t really have much to teach me any more. Occasionally he would still join me for an Art competition, but most of the time I was drawing pictures with his twin – Success.

I never would have met Success if it weren’t for Failure.

At first I found myself infatuated with Success. I loved the way that she would flatter me and would spend as much time in her company as possible. It’s weird, though. After a while I found her a little bit shallow. She was very attractive, but didn’t have as much to teach me as Failure.

So I often found myself trying new things. Each time I picked up a new interest Failure would be there waiting for me with open arms. And for each interest, Success would be hanging out just out of site waiting for Failure to get tired. She would always look beautiful to me – and each time I would run to her, forgetting how short-lived our happiness seems to be.

So Failure and Success hang out together. If you want to meet Success, you are likely to have some interactions with her brother Failure.

People get so bent out of shape about experiencing Failure. He’s not so bad. He’s annoying and seems to show up at inconvenient times but most of the time he is harmless.

Besides, you can learn a lot from him and his sister is hot.