Day 26: How do you handle/deal with both success and failure?
Both success and failure are a part of life. To get past failure is success. And the feeling can be wonderful and uplifting, too. To succeed requires hard work. Then again another failure is a sign for one to put life into perspective.
For example, I wanted to succeed in many things. But because I was both too lazy and too dumb, I failed to pass through many doors of opportunity. And as a result, I ended here at this “temp job from hell”. It’s a boring underemployment where my knowledge could have been put to better use in a higher paying and more challenging job.
Instead of contributing to society my other talents, such as singing, dancing, bossing and cleaning up the environment, here I am sitting in front of this damn computer and blogging. I’ve finished work in one hour and the client is so generous to keep us bums afloat for another month before they decide to axe us.
But blogging is good because very few readers are learning how my mind thinks and what they should think about their lives and how successful they are to own a computer and log online. Some are failures and they don’t have the opportunity to blog AND work at the same time.
In retrospect, success and failure are states of mind and how one preceives an event as being either better or worse than before or after the fact. Although this job pays low, I finally got the chance to exercise by walking around the blocks during my breaks.
In my previous job, I was my own boss. And I got fat from eating weekly snacks of donuts and bagels and dedicating my time away from ALL my breaks to finishing up the work on a daily basis. I didn’t want to work overtime, which is a liability to the company.
So while my philosophy is to work hard and succeed in my own special ways, any failure can be overcome with a little time to explore one’s strengths and weaknesses. I’m sure I’ll get out of this mess either by myself or with a little help from my family and friends, who come and go.
Reference: http://danacreative.blogspot.com/2011/01/30-day-writing-challenge.html
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