Saturday, January 22, 2011

Failure: Everyone Fails




I'd like to share a story with you.


It’s about a little pig named Aggie.

Aggie was said to be good at mud fights. She was chosen by the Farmer to join in the Mud Fight competition in their local area along with 2 other pigs, namely Bob and Dylan, who were good at mud fighting too. Aggie knew that the 2 best scorers of the team would advance to the next round. Aggie also knew that Bob and Dylan were way, way better than her at mud fighting so she decided to take for granted the practices they would have with the farmer.

When the competition day came, Aggie was nervous and when it was her turn to have a mud fight she did her best and applied what she trained for during practices ( wee, the ones she only went to anyway). Later on that day, the scores were announced. Bob got an 8 out of 10, Dylan got a 5 out of 10 and Aggie, who was so shocked to hear her score got a 1 out of 10. This brought great sadness to Aggie but she was happy for her team anyway because they would be advancing to the next round. Aggie thought at first that not advancing to the next round would be okay but she felt disappointed at herself and promised to herself that next year that if she would be given another chance and get picked again for the Mud Fight competition, she would train as hard as she could and do the best of what she can do to prove that she could get a higher score that a 1 out of 10.




Moral: Don't let a failure drag you down to your deepest pits of hell. Instead, let it be what drives you to do better the next time you have a chance.

Every single one of us has either experienced failing or never failed (actually these people who think they have never failed, ever in their life, just can't accept the fact that they did fail, the fact that they're human). Here’s a fact for you, if you are human, then you are imperfect.

Statement: Aggie is human, therefore, Aggie is imperfect.



No one can really be perfect, maybe just try or pretend to be perfect but not the actual thing. So since this is really clear to most of us, then it’s time to accept the fact that we make mistakes and eventually fail but that doesn’t mean it’s the end of the whole wide world. It actually means that we’re just normal (which can be good sometimes) but if we just sit there and stare at the big failure we made, then were just totally nothing more than normal (which can be bad too). What makes us better than ‘normal’ is when we creep out from our shells, start working to attain success, and then eventually attaining it. What feeling is better anyway? Is it the feeling of guilt from our failures? Or is it the great happiness when we accomplish something?



If I were to choose, and because I am normal
I’d chose the happy part, not the one that’s dismal
I’ll wonder if you won’t

Giving up will wreck you, so don’t
Resisting to accept that you’ve failed gives nothing
Except for stress, so go start doing something





Some say, “if life gives you lemons, collect them,”
I say, “if life gives you lemons, don’t treat each as a gem

Instead, make lemonade to drink,”
Would you rather have rotten lemons, hmm, think.

Or would you prefer to have lemonade?
Knowing it’s yours, it’s what you made,
It’s the fruit of your effort
Don’t leave the lemons, don’t avert
It would just be such a waste to leave them to rot
They’ll just stink up the place, stinky is gross like snot




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