The Positive Meaning Of Failure

We've all heard the inspirational sayings about failure: If you fail, try again; learn from failure; failure makes us stronger etc. But there's more ...

Failure isn't a bad thing, quite the opposite, failure is a good thing and here's why:

1. We're Not Meant To Succeed at EVERYTHING:
• Sometimes success can be bad and failure can be good. For example:
• Being Bad:
• If you succeed at being bad, that's a bad thing.
• If you fail at being bad, that's a good thing.
• The Quality Of Selfishness:
• If you succeed in the quality of selfishness, that's a bad thing.
• If you fail in the quality of selfishness, that's a good thing. We're meant to be in the quality of bestowal.
• All systems in this world have been built on the quality of selfishness, so if you think you're a failure, you're not. Just because you fail at the things of this world, doesn't mean you're a failure. You're just not meant to succeed in the quality of selfishness, which is a good thing.
2. Failure Tells Our Story:
• The things we fail at tell the story of who we are, which is a good thing. I'll use myself as an example:
• I failed a derivatives class. [1] Derivatives are about dividing things up into small pieces. I'm not about dividing things up, I'm about uniting things. So this failure tells the story of who I am, which is a good thing.
• I passed an integrals class. [2] Integrals are about uniting thing into one whole, which tells the story of who I am, which is a good thing.
3. We Fail At Certain Things So We Can Succeed At Others:
• We fail at things we're not 'meant' to be doing, so we can put our energy and effort into things we're supposed to be doing, which is a good thing.
• We also fail when it's time to move on to others things, when we've learned enough from our current situation and it's time to grow, for example from selfishness to bestowal. Nature pressures us to move on, which is a good thing.
4. Failure Softens Our Ego:
• Failure makes us realize that we can't do it all. From this state we're more likely to cry out to The Creator to help us. Failure draws us closer to The Creator, which is a good thing.
5. Failure Makes Us More Compassionate:
• Most of us have failed at one thing or another. When we fail we become sympathetic of others who've gone through something similar. It makes us more considerate, compassionate, sympathetic and understanding, which is a good thing.

We have to change from personal selfishness to mutual bestowal, from seeking to benefit ourselves to seeking to benefit others.

Just because we fail, doesn't meant it's a bad thing. Sometimes, failure is a good thing.

This doesn't mean that people have free license to do whatever they want, to fail intentionally or to not try at all, not all. In everything we do, we should seek to benefit others instead of ourselves.
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References:

1. Introduction To Derivatives. www.mathisfun.com. Retrieved Oct 29, 2014.
2. Introduction To Integration. www.mathisfun.com. Retrieved Oct 29, 2014. 

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