Winning and losing, success and failure, is the anatomy of ever person's life. As we all walk this path of life.
One intends to do something by making a the attempt in making it take place. The goal will happen and yet something else takes place.
For each of us we may not get to the exact entended goal, but we will be lead to something that actually becomes the goal while embarking on the goal journey. A definate desired goal that went in a differing direction and it never happened. The intention is one thing or another; the result of the intention/objective reversed itself. The rigidly held goal that one sought for.
Every individual has a success only when intentions are worthy and an understanding there are risks. They are open to the flexibility of what may come their way. They accept the realities of what takes place from the fruits of each effort.
While understanding the risks in a positive perspective. Seemingly to me a risk is a challenge of sorts. One can intend to change life for the better and can succeed. As that is what life is about regardless of of where your from, what gender you are, or what has taken place in the past. When we understand that there is a flexible manner from which to travel our path of life, and understand that with everything there is an upside and a downside - don't focus on the downside, give allowance for the upside and life then gives each and everyone of us a journey that we never stop travelling...
Exactly what is a failure?
Yep, winning and losing are two sides of the coin of fate.
ReplyDeleteIf you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
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Too cool Nigel, there is the writer in you...
ReplyDeleteIt's not the writer in the man who's the problem, it's the man within the writer who struggles.
ReplyDeleteI write therefore I am!
It's like steering a car. For the most part, the car will go down the road without major steering, just a tweek here and there. Occaisionally we need to take an off ramp and will know when it is the right one...... :-) I've seldom forced life; just give it a nudge now and again. It seems to work for me. A very thoughtful post. TX
ReplyDeleteI never thought of it that way but it's rather interesting. We learn from our failures thus a failure does not really exist I would tend to think. If a car breaks down, you do what is required and then you have learned how to fix the tire if it goes. Just a thought.
ReplyDeleteI learned a long time ago, there is no such thing as failure... just looked at the map wrong and took the wrong direction..lol. And so with a good nights sleep, get up in the morning, and start my journey from a different perspective. That one didn't work..:-) I never fail at anything... at least I don't think that way...
ReplyDeleteG'day Jack,
ReplyDeleteI think the only real failure is not attempting or aiming for anything,
A failure is when something happens and you cannot find benefit (or success). I read a fortune cookie that said, "failure is when you meet someone that you cannot learn from" I like the idea of that.
ReplyDeleteFor me, what is to be will happen, I am just along for the ride.
ReplyDeleteI have had two things happen at the same time unfortunately...but tomorrow I will move along...
ReplyDeleteIt is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
ReplyDeleteEdward De Bono
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
Mais oui...
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