Trial and failure

I used to be afraid of failure.  In fact, I was terrified to fail.  I thought that if I didn't succeed at everything I set out to do, it was horrible.  This fear of failure kept me from achieving a lot of things I wanted to because if I just didn't do it, I couldn't fail at it.  My view of failure has changed immensely over the last couple years of my life.  Failure is only failure if you don't pick yourself back up and learn from it.  The concept of failing forward has become one I am learning from.

There are moments as a mother that I have epic fails.  Unfortunately there's no manual for this one.  Amazingly my kids still love me and barely notice my shortcomings.  I have done a superman over the handle bars on my mountain bike, followed by extreme bruising, but I got back on the bike and finished the ride.

Life is filled with failures.  It's part of growing and becoming who you are supposed to be.  How else do we come to know our limitations so we can push through them?  Each failure is a chance to become better.  Trial and failure makes up life.  I would much rather fail because I tried than to continue to sit on the side and watch others succeed at things I know I want to do.  I got tired of not living life and realized that failure was much better than not living.  That if I learned from my failures, it really wasn't failure.  The true failure was in not even trying.

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