Those who are there to count the #number of times we fall, are simply spectators in our stadium.
For it is easy to judge when you are standing on the sidelines in the game of life, but to be willing to “fail,” face first in the eyes of the masses, could very well be our greatest success!
Fail. That one little word will create more chaos in the minds of humans than any man-made war or nature born storm will. It’s not the kind of chaos you can see with your eyes because it is conceived in the mind and that is where it resides.
Why are we so motivated, manipulated and frozen by that word?
We have shed tears on our pillows, in our hands and on friend’s shoulders confessing the sin of failure. After our confession, we hang our heads in shame waiting for our sentence…yet there will be no conviction. We all to often punish ourselves by carrying it on our shoulders for the days, weeks and even years to come.
Yet, who is it that we have failed? Ourselves, family or society? What is it that we have failed? Our career, dreams or relationship?
We are not failing, we are growing!
Yes, it can be painful, for we have all heard of growing pains. Still, each fall we experience in life brings us one step closer to our next victory. We watch babies fall hundreds of times before they learn to walk and yet they continue to stand back up. For it is in our DNA to get up, dust ourselves off and continue trying.
We need to stop losing sleep, jeopardizing our health, and stressing over our “fallures.” Just replacing the word fail with fall, changes the essence of the word. Makes it taste less bitter on the tongue but in the end, that’s the real truth about what we are doing. We are just experiencing little slips and falls as we journey through this thing called life.
Life.
We do not always know where we are going or which path to choose. Sometimes we may choose a path that’s a little steeper, a little riskier and we may fall but that doesn’t mean we have failed!
We are not failures! We are amazing, loved and perfect just as we are! Fallures and all!
“Those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind” where we have failed in our lives. Let us not lose sleep over what other people may think of us, for that has nothing to do with us. That is their own insecurities. They are waiting to watch us fall, so they can justify why they are standing safe on the side lines. For if we succeed, they will have to look closer at their own lives and what they are doing in the game of life.
We are not here to compete against each other.
We are here to help each other along the way, reminding each other to get up. Sometimes we just need to lend a hand, others times we may need to carry each other but our greatest service is just to be compassionate, understanding and kind to each other, for we are all just doing the best we can…
Write back soon, love Annie.
