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Monday, April 25, 2011

Acknowledging Failure

How often do you fail? Most people fail more often than they realize. The reason that most people don't realize their failure is because they accept it so quickly and move on. They do not take the time to realize what failures they are making on a daily basis. When doing so, they learn to move on. Failure does not matter to them, so they simply accept it.
Michael Jordan once said, "I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying." Even one of the most famous athletes will accept failure on occasion. Everyone accepts failure. There are different kinds of failure though. There are small failures, forgetting to do your chores, and large failures, having cancer and dying from it.
In Jodi Picoults, My Sister's Keeper, she writes about how the protaganist, Kate, is dying from cancer. Although her mother does not see it, Kate is accepting the fact that she has been diagnosed with leukemia and that she will soon die. Kate sees how her disease is tearing her family apart and knows that when she is gone that there will not be as much fighting within the family. She is ready to die because she knows that she eventually will.
No matter how big or small the failure, we all make them. Some people strive to overcome them and learn from them. Others let their failure bring themselves down. This blog shows how people accept failure. They move on from it, with no real disturbance on their daily life.