Learn From Failure — Success Might Rebound
Who stays with Failure?
Toni tuned out, as Carla kept ranting about how life had been cruel and vengeful towards her because of the sins of the father.
Her silence pulled Toni back into reality and Carla demanded, “You are ignoring me again. Lately, every time I complain, which is what you told me to do by letting it out, you slide into gear and exit into another world.”
‘Should I tell her the truth?’ Toni’s instincts and conscience asked.
‘If you care about her, tell her the truth?’ her conscience suggested.
‘Didn’t I care about her by telling her to let it out. Then I listened?’ She answered back silently, staring at Carla.
‘You used to,” her conscience reminds. ‘But lately, you are getting fed up with her always complaining and not being grateful.’
‘Did I say that?’ The insanity continues while Carla awaits her response.
‘Girl, if you go on like this, you are going to start avoiding her. She has a good heart. Tell her the truth. If she can’t see or understand it, then you can run.’
Toni played with that thought for a few seconds, weighing her conscience and instincts, then dived in.
“For the past five years, you have been in and out of projects and ideas that you thought would improve your life. Your ideas are great,” Toni said.
“I know, but everything I do, ends up in failure,” she recalls.
“That’s because after failure visits, you leave,” Toni reminds her.
“Who stays with failure?” she asked.
“What if success had rebounded?”
Silence danced around for a while as Carla stared at her friend, thinking. Realizing that she got her thinking further Toni adds more.
“The moment failure visits, you give up and move on to your next project. You don’t stick around to learn from your mistakes to start again stronger and better,” Toni nails in.
“You are saying that success might have revisited had I stuck around to learn more from my failures?”
“Yes,” Toni said smiling. “Failure teaches lessons success don’t. For you to achieve the level of success you want, you have got to stay in the game. Stay on that route. Success doesn’t seek or find anyone. It doesn’t need or want us. We want it. We chase it. We kill ourselves to get it. We deny ourselves many things to earn it. You give up too quickly and that’s why success has eluded you.”
“You mean I am the one responsible for my failures, and not the sins of the father?” she asked.
“Our decisions are our lives. It’s the ones you make, that hand you success or contribute to your failure,” Toni educates.
“So, I am the only one responsible for my failures. Girl why didn’t you tell me that years ago?” Carla demands.
“I didn’t know how you would have taken it, “Toni said.
Reaching out to hug her. Toni met her halfway.
“Thank you for telling me that. You are right. I guess having too many resources makes it easier for me to try something else new instead of learning from the mistakes,” she expressed gratitude.
Silence took balance then Toni asked, “So what’s the plan?”
“Sticking to failure until success shows up. While learning from why failure likes to visit me,” she said laughing.
Toni laughed too and they began to plan for 2024.
For 2024, stay in the game. Stick to your dreams no matter what failure does. Success might rebound. But you must be there to open the door to let success in.
Merry Christmas Everyone.
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