On Failure
When I tried to make a vegan red velvet cake and it turned out brownish green
I just called it “chocolate velvet,” dug in with a giant spoon and grinned like a Cheshire cat
When I ate what I thought to be vegan Trader Joe’s sausage-less sausage and then later realized it had egg whites in it
I remembered that any lifestyle needs to be flexible enough for long-term survival (and that I need to be better at reading labels if it’s that important to me!).
When I get caught up in self-loathing and thinking I haven’t gone quite far enough
I remember the letter I wrote to my body and think of how far I’ve come.
We throw “failure” around like it’s insulting or something to be shunned. If we gave up every time things got hard or gave up every time we screwed up, we’d never move forward. Hell might be paved with good intentions, but the heart of success is always sutured with failures.
How do you pick yourself up after feeling you’ve failed at something? Any failures of yours turn into successes?
<3,
The Cranky One
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Picking myself (or being picked) up one failure after another has been the story of my life. I call it grace.
I <3 your honesty.
Read my current post! Please! and comment, if you can!
Because to be honest, you did’nt intentionally do anything wrong. But the feeling you felt GUILT and then the thought FAILURE punctured something. This is hard for me, managaing my guilt, my “you have not gone far enough” I usually run, or confess it to someone who can help me approach life more full of being HUMAN tha being a ROBOT that detects every bump along the way….
i am often so hard on myself, so i know exactly how you feel. those sausage-less sausages sound delicious !!
xoxo
shelley
Carrie Arnold had a great post recently where she discussed “flailing vs. failing.” I think there’s a huge difference and “failure” is simply a matter of perspective. You may have hit a couple bumps, but you didn’t fail at anything because you tried, and I assume you will try again!
As for me, every day I fail at something (or many things), but every day I tell myself to try again. If I don’t, then I suppose it can be viewed as a failure.
And anything chocolate can’t be that bad…
Here’s a proverb (I think Japanese, but not positive) that I think of OFTEN;
” Fall down 7 times, get up 8; Life begins now”
In my opinion failure is just the lack of perseverance, and you definitely have perseverance!