If you were trying a new recipe out for the first time, and whatever you were cooking ended up tasting horrible, you'd have a couple of options: you can curl up into a ball and consider yourself a failure or you can try to figure out what went wrong and try again.
The same applies to anything else in life. Failure isn't the opposite of success, failure is a PART of the process. Whenever we don't get what we wanted from life, there are still many things we gain. We gain experiences, lessons, and new knowledge, but only if we're looking for them (and we're not curled up in a ball). Life is trial and error. Those errors are not failures if they teach us, and we adjust accordingly, then they're gifts.
This is easier said than done when we're talking about relationships, because those errors come with a potential 💔. But that's how the game goes, and there are still lessons to be learned, when we're ready to learn them. Success is a lousy teacher, so have fun failing. The fear of failure paralyses us, and those worse case scenarios are never as damaging as the regret of never trying.
Changing the way we look at failure will change the way we feel about our lives.
Source: humblethepoet
