Day 12 of 365

The best advice you’ve ever heard, or ever been given 

“It’s better to try and fail than to fail without trying.”

I forgot where I saw that quote. It’s pretty much the most motivating I’ve seen yet, mainly because it kind of implies that failure isn’t a bad thing. It’s actually a good thing, if you learn to see the bright side of everything. Failure is equal to experience. I once heard someone say that success is getting what you want; and not getting what you want (aka failure) is called experience. Something like that. 

It’s true, it is better to try and fail than to fail without trying. Failures shape us and teach us lessons we could either take or leave. If failure doesn’t exist, we will all be equal. We’ll all be like robots, because we’re all the same. Nobody’s better and nobody’s worse. You may kind of think that this is a good thing, but it’s not. Nobody will stand out; nobody will be different. 

And you know what that means? 

Nobody will be creative. At all. 

Nobody will find ways to succeed, because we’re all equal -- in other words, we have everything everyone else has. That’s sad. Life wouldn’t be as exciting as it is! 

Don’t you get it? Without mistakes, we’ll all be perfect. That’s the saddest thing ever, if you’d ask me. We should be thankful that this game of life contains failure and mistakes because without it, we would forget the feeling of happiness, sadness, excitement, anger, frustration, joy, and whatever feeling there is! Like what I told you, we’ll all be robots if that happens. And that’s scary.

I kind of got carried away. Sorry.