Erewhon

Failure is a stern measure when it shouldn’t be. Not getting up ought to be the thing that gets our goat up! I mean really, it should! The number of times I’ve tripped, fallen or simply stumbled over an obstacle are too numerous to count on both hands, but trip, fall and stumble I have.

The thing about doing that is you can learn from it or you can give up. And trust me, the giving up is a darn sight harder. Why you ask? It would be easier wouldn’t it?

Well, no, it wouldn’t be and it isn’t because there’s something completely unpalatable about throwing your hands in the air and deciding to lay down and let a train railroad you. Well, it it does me! Giving up isn’t part of my self-talk. Finding solutions is, particularly when the going gets tough.

It’s not that the tough get going even, I think it has it has more to do with the fact that lying down isn’t something I’d do willingly, particularly without giving a thing some thought. Who lies down unless it’s really necessary. Certainly not me, what about you?

To be fair, lying down isn’t cowardly if you ask me, sometimes it’s the only option we feel is left to us and in the absence of a better thought at the time, it’s an entirely valid option. Would I do it? In all honesty, probably not, I’m simply not build that way, not mentally or emotionally.

I’m part billy goat gruff and part troll under the bridge, whichever way I look at it one of them has to give and neither of them do it willingly. That’s me to a tee. Never say never!

Is failure bad. Never! Not once, not twice not however many times you end up picking yourself up, dusting yourself off and starting all over again. Those my friend are the actions of one who will one day find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Is there really gold in the pot? Actually no, there’s much more. What you’re asking?

Well integrity for starters and self respect and resolve and inner grit and the experience. You can’t beat that! The experience of failure once makes you a novice, the experience of failure more than once builds character and develops in you smarter habits.

The fact it might carry across a lifetime isn’t so bad as long as you keep learning from your mistakes. Failure is a good teacher, particularly if we look, listen and learn. You think? And if you don’t look, listen and learn? Well, you end up in Erehwon, that’s nowhere spelt backwards.