Failure and Success

I wrote this essay for Language Arts, as it is a grade. I didn't know what to compare and contrast, but this is told to me to be a deep one... You don't have to read it, but I like to post about it.

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Failure and Success

"If smart people learn from their own mistakes, and smarter people learn from other people's mistakes, then the smartest learn from other people's achievements. That's the no-frills methodology known as best practice." People make mistakes; nobody is perfect as they would say. What is perfection anyways? Everyone has a different perception of what the meaning of 'perfect' is, so there is nothing 'perfect' because it depends on one's perceptions. That's why failure shouldn't be taken so seriously. The only real failure is hindering the mistakes in order to think that this action would help their path to their goal.

Everyone can make a goal to go after if they chose to, no matter how insignificant it is. It can be little as brushing teeth to something big such as causing a revolution. People make mistakes, and what most would do if the mistakes become failures - They would throw a tantrum and give up. The best reason to give up is to realize that the action that is being held ultimately becomes a waste of energy. Many would see failures as a disgrace and success as something to be praised for. Oddly enough, failures helps one to learn in order if they would try again, they would have a higher possibility in accomplishing the task. But not all failures are mostly beneficial, like a project that was destroyed and the makers run out of materials to create a new one. Though, there's always some other important goals to look for and that's the bright side of envisioning opportunities.

There are multitudes of ways to learn; one of them is called debating or arguments. Debates/arguments points out mistakes, dissolves belief systems, ect. The two consists of opposing perceptions that discuss on matters that they disagree. They are also the test of one’s strength. Though in these kinds of tests, there would be the idea of who is the 'winner' or 'loser'. There is no need for a 'winner' or 'loser' in an argument because people learn from them. Though, there are times where one starts being egotistic which bends their perceptions. Even if that they’re right or wrong, they would think them self as the 'winner', but there is no 'winner' - Once they have been exposed, thought loops would occur. This is the way of self-correction and learning. Letting go of the ego opens up the self, even though some emotional impact would occur, this is called humiliation. Humiliation is success!!

"The chase is better than the catch." Failure would only occur during the progress of reaching the goal, but people would think of it as the 'stop' on the chase - To the contrary, if failure is treated wisely, it can actually breed success! For example: the trial-and-error method. Only disregarding failures would distort the path to success. Even if they reach success by disregarding failures, they do not handle their actions in consideration. Failures are always best to be reflected upon so one would know what to do. Success is only the catch. It's like a person reading the book and wants to finish it for a school class; he skims the books to the ending in order to get a mediocre grade on the test. It's also like skipping the gold under the road cracks in order to reach the pile of money across the other street. This may also explain how success is somewhat a failure. It really depends on how the individual treat himself.

The experience of success and failure builds character, and when that positive characteristic is being expressed from one - it affects another. Man is not a machine; he is not something simply controlled by chemicals or defined by grades from tests. To live as a man is to experience life and learn lessons. The smartest seeing this positive influence might learn to be best within themselves too. For example: a lighthouse showing the ships to land during the dark night. Either it can be admiration or envy, the major similarity between the two is that they both inspire anyways. Success emanating off from one shows the others the way to their own accomplishments.

There is the way of intuitive thinking that leads to such beautiful epiphanies. Noticing the mistakes and learning from them will help one's self to reach their goal. Humiliation is success by letting go of one's negative ego aspect, which distorts perception of what truth is. No one is perfect because perfect is subjective. One would then recognize that failure and success exists simultaneously. This then presents to the meaning that failure and success are one in the same.