Failure?

Today was one of those days when so many things happened, a friend of a relative died in a motorcycle accident, after having to suffer for many hours in a hospital and not receiving the proper attention that she needed. Then a co-worker was being sexually harrassed by her boss and she called me at the brink of tears, I almost didn't know what to do, fortunately she will be relocated to another place and hopefully the guy can be charged later on, but that is another story.

So I began to think about failure, some people never fail in their whole lives, or at least they seem no to fail, they seem perfect, and act perfect. While others seem to fail repeatedly and never learn from their previous mistakes or just keep making new ones as life just passes them by. I, for one, have not been as lucky to have been born perfect, and have not driven myself crazy to achieve it, but I have tried to make every mistake count in building my very-much- less-than-perfect self to learn and try to make fewer errors and project into the future what will be the outcome of the things I do before I do them.

In what moment do we know that we have failed or earned a victory? It could be at the end of your life, when it would be extremely late, or at the end of each day, or every few hours. It really doesn't matter how you keep your accountings in this, what really matters is that at the end of the day you feel that you are learning to be a better human being by helping yourself develop new skills in the never ending story of progress. So even if you may have failed once, twice or many times, the next time that you will embark into something new, you better put your heart into it, start planning ahead, and try to think how important it is to do things right the first time they come.

The first step to really get things done well is by be-living in yourself, knowing that you can do everything you set your mind to in the best possible way.