The Art of Failure

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4707015.stm

THe link above leads us to an article about how we view "failure" nowadays. Failure, to many people, means the ability to perform a task. It also means depression, rejection, lack of self-esteem and the lack of confidence. We have at some points in our lives felt these emotions before. I have. And the process was not a sweet one. I posed questions to myself which I could not answer. I made statements about myself which fuelled my pessimism. Even today, the ghosts haunt me when I am alone. I plunged myself into an abyss of darkness. In the darkness dwells monsters which feed on negativity. The more negatively you think of yourself, the stronger the monsters grow. It is a vicious cycle. And if we do not keep this process in check, we end up harming ourselves.

Today, I still face rejections and failures. Instead of falling into the abyss of darkness, I talk myself out of it. I think of the positive. I try to understand and learn from the situations and circumstances.