TM - Greatest Failure
Feb. 9th, 2006 11:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
semihero_pietroI learned a long time ago not to measures acts that I have done as failures, but instead as "undesirable events or results."
Why? Because once you admit a failure, then you will forever refer back to that event as a level. "It can't be as bad as this" or "I feel like I did when" and you can never move beyond it.
Sure, I've had lots of undesirable results though. Being unable to be the husband and father I wanted to be. Not able to be the son that my father wants me to be. My constant mental choice of running away from conflict instead of resolving it head on.
But true failure? I don't believe I've run across that yet?
Why, you ask?
Because the world is still going on. I'm still alive, and the day leads to night and each morning i greet the sun, and each night I bid the stars a good night.
When I finally have a great failure, I won't be here to talk about it, because to me, the world will end, because I wasn't there to save it.
Muse: Pietro Maximoff
Genre: X-Men
Why? Because once you admit a failure, then you will forever refer back to that event as a level. "It can't be as bad as this" or "I feel like I did when" and you can never move beyond it.
Sure, I've had lots of undesirable results though. Being unable to be the husband and father I wanted to be. Not able to be the son that my father wants me to be. My constant mental choice of running away from conflict instead of resolving it head on.
But true failure? I don't believe I've run across that yet?
Why, you ask?
Because the world is still going on. I'm still alive, and the day leads to night and each morning i greet the sun, and each night I bid the stars a good night.
When I finally have a great failure, I won't be here to talk about it, because to me, the world will end, because I wasn't there to save it.
Muse: Pietro Maximoff
Genre: X-Men
