When I failed Math ..

Failure is an event, never a person. ~William D. Brown, Welcome Stress!

There is no failure except in no longer trying. ~Elbert Hubbard

Yesterday, I had the most interesting job interview. The hr personnel asked me straight away why I had one failing mark. It's been three years since I graduated and about 7 years ago when I failed that course. So I simply said, "that's because I failed." Anyway, the point is, I don't know if I should feel insulted or irritated because I was reminded of that first failure I ever had in my academic life.

This led me then to my recent failure of getting a much coveted job and an almost failure in doing business. Just thinking about all these things made my head hurt and my heart ache. Why is it hard to accept failure? If failure is an ingredient of success...then I really hope that with all my recent failures, I will come out of it with honors.

I'm a closet drama queen so to speak. I take things hard and blame myself for the failures in my life but someone once told me to take baby steps in life because my feet were not meant to take giant steps. It never did make any sense at that time but I realized that my failures were a result of this race I've been having with life. My sister told me last night that I was still young and that I could still turn my life around and make it better. She was right. So with eyes wide open and arms outstretched I now fully embrace all my failures as a child, sister, daughter, student, worker, and lover.