I don’t fail. never in my life have I failed at soemthing that I put my mind to. ever. I don’t know why but it has never happened. Being young I thought it would never happen. Well maturing sucks. I realize now I have limits and now I know one of them. I have a project that is do in 24 hours and I got 6 hours sleep last night. There is no way that i can get it done and I have lost most of the will to try. This won’t drastically affect my grade, but it is a hit to my self confidence. There is no way that I could get it done. Key word I other people in my class can and will get it done. I failed. it hurts. Tonight is the first time in a long time that I felt sad, or angry or frustrated enough that I wanted to cry. But my go-getter genes said “fuck it” no crying. I now have a glimmering of how my alcholic father felt after the umpteenth time he tried to give it up. I just want to get drunk and accept my failure. I have 24 hours left but I don’t care. What makes this funny is that my poractive can do genes, from my mother’s side, are already pulling up my energy and self confidence levels. So by Monday I will be the go-getter that I was six hours ago or so. In fact I sort of feel better now. But the swing from super motivated crazy guy to depressed bum is fucking up my head.
Is this how your first failure felt? Feel free to be funny or mock me because the half of my brain that is working is already making jokes.
From every failure come the seeds for future success.
I don’t mock you, and I wouldn’t dream of starting to do that to anyone in your situation. Rather than kick yourself all over the place because of this, figure out why things went wrong, and learn from them.
That proactive, go-getter side to your persohnality should, indeed, pull you through – but study what went wrong. It will help you next time.
What Ice Wolf said. It is definitely a sign of growth to have a few failures under your belt. While it’s not a habit you want to get into, not ever failing means that you’re not striving hard enough, almost by definition. Even if you have been enormously successful, it is necessary to test your limits. And, as any engineer will tell you, you can only really know the limits of something if the limit has been crossed at some point in the past.
well I got up early and started on the project and though I won’t get it done I can at least guarantee myself a c for the class. I guess the failure genes didn’t have the energy to screw me over. Now I am debating doing all this work when an ok grade is pretty mush assured.