8 Songs to Boost Your Confidence After Failure

How many of you have been bleeding and lost a finger in the battle to take the essence of your existence?

“Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life .” — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788–1860.

They said you’re the bravest person if you happened to choose to have dreams, a subject of our existence, the reason we continue every step of agony that try to resist the ultimate goal. Surely, we all want to make the dream become something we can touch or taste in the future, but how many of us are willing to start trying? How many of you have tried and have the guts to try again? How many of you have been bleeding and lost a finger in the battle to take the essence of your existence?

To have doubt and try to hide for a moment after adventuring the paths of dream it’s so humane. Perhaps, you may need an angle, a different perspective to rejuvenate your motivation, body and soul, so you are able to walk on the journey ahead of your dream, again.

There are plenty of stories about failure, a successful story, and how you might realize its built from the pile statue of failures. There are movies to get inspired and music to awaken the dream that sometimes sleeps tight between a pillow of laziness and a fear of failure.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity — Paulo Coelho: The Alchemist.

As Schopenhauer said music expresses the innermost nature of all life in a language intelligible with absolute directness, yet not capable of translation into that of our faculty of reason.

1. Barbara Pravi — Voilà

The thing about music is you don’t have to understand the language to feel its essence pass into your soul. Voilà harmonization will remind you about the suffering of having a dream but at the same time a reminder for you to get up and stand your voice louder as the dream become vividly clear.

• Note: if you enjoy ice skating, use this song as a choreography, for a tournament or not but everyone will start to feel the anger and sadness as the music becomes messy and fast-paced.

2. Fujii Kaze — Shinunoga E-Wa

You will get a 1-minute piano melody intro about frustration and a gate for hope. We only have one life, dying while we try to pursue our dream seems a beautiful way to die.

I want you to be my end. If it meant saying goodbye to you. I’d rather die. I’d rather die.

• Note: This is a perfect song to be used as a morning alarm, fighters! Fujii Kaze’s deep voice would clearly distract you to keep your eyes close.

3. Ólafur Arnalds — Only The Winds

Sometimes instrumental songs carry a behemoth emotion to translate the unexplained feeling inside ourselves. I could imagine myself floating in the ocean of tears as a failure once again distracted the path of my dreams. But, it’s not forever.

I know that I must let all the tears out. It could work as a recharge system and by the time you let the very last drop of tears pass your cheeks you will regain your energy to focus on your dream, again.

• Note: It’s one of the pieces from the legend Ólafur Arnalds's “So Far + So Close”.

4. Idina Menzel, AURORA — Into the Unknown (From “Frozen 2”)

I can hear you, but I won’t Some look for trouble While others don’t There’s a thousand reasons I should go about my day And ignore your whispers Which I wish would go away, oh, oh-oh

If my dream/goal sounds like AURORA's pitching voice and there is a solid reason why I should terrifying of it. It’s so haunted and the dream could be this mystical creature being embedded alive inside my head.

There is a moment when we try to ignore “the calling”, perhaps because we are aware of how hard the journey will be. But, we will go insane to not the answer to “the unknown”. Imagine you’re so terrified to start the journey of the dream until it’s too late and you’re dying because of regret.

• Note: this song is the reason I have the intention to write the article. Somehow AURORA’S pitching voice suddenly appear above my head all day and there was nothing I could do unless I paint on my canvas, a blank paper and ink.

5. Apashe — Majesty (ft. Wasiu)

This song happened if Mozart teleport himself from the Romanticism era to German’s Techno Clubs in 2022.

I guarantee this song would make you so damn powerful that you dare enough to pass through the red light traffic.

• Note: if you feel so energetic (which is sometimes not every day) try to listen to more trap songs to gain more focus and endure the moment.

6. The Greatest Showman Cast — A Million Dreams

Trying to reach your dream it’s tremendously hard and yet we cannot stop thinking about it. You could just sweep your dreams under the carpet and pretend as if they never exist, but your dream is everything that represents who you are. The more you push it away the more you lost a sense of who you really are.

A vision of the one I see. A million dreams is all it’s gonna take.

• Note: Hugh Jackman’s voice will always give me goosebumps.

7. London Grammar — Wasting My Young Years

Ladies and Gentlemen, the ultimate of the best band that had ever existed (in my POV), London Grammar. Hannah Reid’s voice sends shivers up my spine and I guess it's a hope itself, by all means.

The only thing to waste our young years is to spend thinking about the fear of failure.

• Note: I recommend you to listen “Hey Now” as the continuing story of this song….plus “Rooting For You”.

8. Lorde — Yellow Flicker Beat (Hunger Games)

The yellow flicker bird in particular, known as the yellow-shafted flicker is symbolized good luck and change. In some Native American tribes, particularly in Northern California, the yellow flicker symbolizes one person’s ability to become a healer.

The song was a part of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay–part 1 (2014) soundtrack and you can hear a heavy element of pure poetry that you could interpret differently from me.

I’m a princess cut from marble Smoother than a storm

And the scars that mark my body

They’re silver and gold

• Note: One thing is for sure, every failure you carried is shown how much you try, in other words, you have succeeded. I mean, success needs stability and consistency as much as trying, right?

Anyway, thank you and long life the fighters!

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