Short Story: Never Forsaken

Clayton Christensen’s book, “How Will You Measure Your Life?” gives an example of Clayton building a Treehouse with his kids. Every piece was put together with his children. They meticulously and slowly hammered each nail. After it was finished, he noticed his children didn’t use it much. They did show their friends what they built and how they built it, and the story of them building it together. He learned that the journey and the accomplishment of building it together was worth more than the outcome. I remember a time when my manager told me to slow down and enjoy the journey. I felt she was missing the bigger picture. I could not fathom slowing down. I didn’t understand what that meant since my goals were to achieve a certain level of income and an accumulation of things by specific ages. These goals were my measure of success that I made it in life. I was a glory seeker with a need for approval and validation. I was single, and extremely motivated to create my destiny. I lacked the grounding of an integrated life. I didn’t make much time for friends and my community. I was the one who always arrived to work early and stayed late. Enmeshed in a struggle on behalf of some ideal. One night at 7pm, a leader asked if I had too much to do or nowhere to go. I answered, “Both.” My priorities were in the wrong place. My values needed to change. Failure and loss would help me to re-center and re-balance my approach and methods. Failure creates radical self-understanding and is

Today, I eat lunch with friends, I find comfort in my clubs, and sometimes, I fail. When I lived in Florida, I never had to cope with failure, as everything came to me easily. What I know now is that failure is an unavoidable aspect of life, and I know I’ll encounter it wherever I end up. When I moved up the East Coast, I learned how to face failure head on and accept that there are days when I can’t be perfect. But I am now able to learn from my failures and keep them in mind when moving

“y/n wait please just listen to me i know you still have feelings for me i can tell by looking into your eyes.”

Throughout life, one encounters difficulties and hardships regardless of their age, race, or place in society. These difficulties range from struggling in a sport or a class to overcoming the loss of a loved one. As a result of these times of sorrow and adversities, one might feel as if their life stops, or that hope is unattainable. For instance, I have endured countless ordeals. Some not as hard as others, but all of them greatly impact my outlook of life and like many others, I will continue to face these hardships.

Feeling like a failure is common among young adults, especially those in college. I've been coping with several failures this past year, most of which stemmed from ignoring my intuition and my rebel against western medicine. However, I’ve come to realize that acknowledging defeat and mindfully moving forward is the first step towards creating a life of success.

“Oh you want too much! I love you now-isn’t that enough? I can’t help what’s past. I did love him once-but I loved you

“You loved him! Didn’t you?” I can hear in his voice he is holding back tears.

“A hill is another chance to climb.” Failure effects everyone on Earth. The difference is that everyone responds to said failures in different ways. Since I was young, I faced roadblocks. The way I faced these failures are what defines me. Even though it is difficult, I try to learn something from each of them. A failure that truly taught me a valuable lesson was the end of my senior football season. The events and lessons that I took away from this failure will help guide me for the rest of my life.

You can ask a hundred different people about their opinion on life and you’ll probably get a hundred different answers. Yet an overlying message that may be heard would be that life will knock you down a couple of times. Graduating from high school and soon being on your own, will cause many to come to find out how true this message is. Bad days are destined to happen. There will be days when you’ll be in the library with bags under your eyes working on assignment that is due in 5 hours. There will be days you’ll be so exhausted that you don’t even remember what happened in your classes. There will be days where all you can do is stay in bed, and that’s okay. Bad days are destined to happen, there is no way around it. You can ask everyone you know and more than not, they’ll say that they’ve reached rock bottom at one point in their life. Sometimes people forget that bad things are supposed to happen. Yet when bad things happen, it forces us to look at the good in life. Because in life, the things that go wrong are often the very things that lead to other things going

“It started off great. He was sweet and romantic and my family loved him. He would bring me flowers or strum his guitar for me.”

I blinked slowly, then I spilled my mind to him in swift Op. “I don’t know what to do about her. I don’t know what to do about myself or about Shelby or anything. I can’t help but feel like my life is crumbling around me and I don’t know what to hold on to in order to keep myself standing.

I don’t know what to do. I live from day to day boys. I tell you, I know every thought in his mind. It sounds so old-fashioned and silly, but I tell you he’s put his whole life into you and you’ve turned your backs on him. [She is bent over the chair, weeping, her head in her hands].

Probably everyone faces disappointments at a certain point. Through these times of difficulty we might get so trapped up in negative conditions that we do not appreciate the positive sides in our lives. In the article,”3 Things I Learned While My Plane Crashed,” Elias (2011) speaks that I have been presented with a gift that is to look ahead to the upcoming and try on eliminating negative energy. Lifetime is not endless; so don’t go for second chances when you can take the

Failure, many believe it to be a depressing event with no silver lining. That is simply not true. You see, failure opens two pathways. One leads to even more failure, while the other leads to success, but the traveler must choose one. Either they learn from the mistake and succeed or they do not learn, and continue to fail. Many are oblivious to this fact, I was one of the many. It wasn’t until sophomore year that I truly understood what it meant to fail. The end of sophomore year I was struck down with a migraine so severe I woke my neighbors with the sound of my agonized screams. An hour later and the betrayal committed by my own mind did not stop. It was as if I was Julius Caesar, and my mind was Brutus. The battle lasted eleven days. In the end the migraine was only defeated by four visits to the doctors, a very long trip to the E.R., and several trips to a neurologist.

Failure often times leads a person to feel helpless, disappointed and depressed. However,one should not allow this to set them back in trying to achieve the ultimate aim one has set out to do. Failure in the beginning can often be a powerful incentive to reassess one’s position in wanting to achieve the particular aims; to analyse whether the purpose is worth the trouble the person has to undergo and the whether the obstacles are surmountable.