Can failure and disappointment, create anxiety and addiction for people? This rash assumption could be true or false, depending on their state of being and attitude towards life. It can produce pessimistic thoughts such as “should I give up?” or “why am I even doing this?” But can also produce optimistic thoughts that will lead them down a path, full of confidence and positivity. Ultimately, with all things considered the real question is, will a person, let failure and disappointment uplift their ability to become a better them, or let frustration and lack of success lead them to a crash of their long lasting life, potentially leading them into an unfortunate trap of superstition or drugs, like Harry in the short story “Fortune Cookie” …show more content…
wrote the short story “Fortune Cookie”, and it is about a salesman named Harry that has not been selling what he needs be and he starts to get anxiety because he does not know what is to come to him in his future. So he turns to superstition and fortune cookie fortunes to help him produce positive thoughts, and gain confidence. These fortunes ironically start to create success in Harry’s meetings so he does not change his morning routine of lighting a candle, praying, and then going to a Chinese restaurant. For several months Harry would this do his morning routine, read his fortune cookie fortunes, and have successful meetings, until one day when he realized the Chinese food was making him sick, and since he knew he really did not need the food just the cookie he would throw out the food after buying it and just keep the cookie. Later he found a store that sold fortune cookies by the bag, so he would buy the bags, keep the cookies in his desk, and ration them out to himself, but the cookies fortunes later became unclear to him. Harry would buy dozens of bags of cookies trying to find one has good as his first ones, and the addiction just became worse, he even almost passed up on an opportunity with an international corporation just because all the fortunes he had were negative. After a numerous amount of negative fortunes Harry decided to urgently go into the meeting with the international cooperation, and after it, the Corporate level offered him a …show more content…
When Selby Jr. nearly survived and the hospital released him, he published in 1964 his first novel called, Last Exit to Brooklyn, which soon became an international best seller, due to its harsh reality of a world populated by brutal factory workers and nihilistic cross-dressing drug attics. After this hit, his heroin and drinking addiction began to catch up to him. He used the sixty thousand dollars he made of the book for drugs and drinks, also hanging out with crooks and junkies to get high, in which he believed provided and offered him support and comfort, but these things soon led him into a massive and unstoppable misery. Selby Jr. later moved to the Los Angeles, California to try and get away from the New York drug scene, but of course he fell into the Los Angeles drug scene as well. After a few years living a terrible life Selby Jr. knew he had to change or die, so in the next thirty-one years he became completely sober and wrote six books, depicting the disease of the human condition, as he focused on channeling his rage into his writings. On April 26, 2004 Hubert Selby Jr. died of chronic pulmonary disease, he was
Everybody makes mistakes. Failure can be a motivation, for it drives you to have a bigger passion for your desired goal. Success and failure have a relationship in which you can learn from your mistakes but later succeed.
Failing in various areas in life can give people a negative outlook on their own achievements. When failure strikes, people can become discouraged by their lack of achievements and give up. According to In Praise of Failure: The Value of Overcoming Mistakes in Sports and in Life by Mark Anshel, the author was a failure in numerous activities he wrote about in his book. “ I am not a failure (as a person); I failed at something” (Ashnel). This is a positive perspective on
Failure is something that all people encounter in their lives. In some situations failure can break a person or make a person, meaning a person can fail at something and just simply give up. Others will fail and that failure can give them the inspiration to try harder to one day achieve their goal. I'm the type of person to fail and work harder until I am content. As my championship baseball coach would say "What’s our motto? Never give up!"
In addition, the willingness to learn through failure can help to reach the desired destiny. Nearly everybody fears failing, because it has been associated with all sorts of negativity. Although an optimistic look on the other side of tripping or falling down in life can make someone to be successful in
“Don’t Eat Fortune Cookies”, Luck is the key to success. The “Cuban missile crisis” was solved in a chinese restaurant in washington. They are lucky because, it “lists numbers used by some lottery numbers”. Fortune cookies invented by the japanese and popularized by the chinese and the chinese took over the fortune business with making a profit for the cookies. New York City, in 1904, was the era of chop suey and for guys, to impress a girl, you would take them on a chop suey date.
Failure is a part of everyone's daily lives; however, depending on the person you are you
Smiley found that in gambling, others can out smart you by cheating. Both stories are about finding luck. One by gambling; the other by finding gold. They both find this with an object. The stories teach others that a decision can change a life for the good or the bad in instance.
In conclusion, this story titled “The Lottery” expresses the impact on all people because of the choices one person makes.
Realizing that you’ve failed something is hard to do. No one wants to accept defeat, and that's a flaw that most people have. Failure isn’t always negative. However, it isn’t always easy to apply this concept to your own situation either. When we think of failing, we think of not being good enough or not having the qualities needed to improve. We look down upon failure and defeat instead of seeing the raw potential it holds. If you feel hopeless when your goal isn’t accomplished the way you wanted it to be, there is no need to worry: it’s extremely natural to lose motivation when you’re standing face-to-face with disappointment or negativity. What you do have to keep in mind is that recovery can’t be reached without considering three major points: conviction, value, and motivation. Each failure is filled with more
Failure can feel devastating when you are living through the experience. I felt this way during one of the greatest failures in my life, failing to qualify for State History Day in my junior year of high school. This was my third History Day competition and I had previously qualified for State. While I entered the event with confidence from previous competitions and a final product that I thought was close to perfect, experiencing failure this time taught me how to strive for the best that I can be, persevere through tough times, and that sometimes your best isn't always the best.
I’ve learned that failure is a common part of life, but how you perceive failure is what matters the most. There are a lot of uncontrollable variables that can dictate a situation. However, the one aspect we are able to control is our state of mind and it is imperative to have a positive mental attitude. As described by Shawn Achor, in Before Happiness, if you allow a pessimistic mind set to control your outlook on a situation. Then, one will only focus on all the aspects of the failure instead of looking on how to improve the situation. Perfectly stated by Winston S. Churchill “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; and optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
On the other hand, failure was my success. If I succeeded at ending my life I would have never gotten the chance to experience all the greatness life has to offer. My failure has given me the abilities that can set me apart from other applicants because I have reached my lowest point and not only did I get past it, but it has also made me stronger than ever. My failure has made me a happier, more strong-minded, brave, and driven person that can get passed any obstacle. This failure has made me realize that I want to help people and make a difference in this world. Without failure there would be no victory. My liveliness, motivation and urge to keep going have made me the person that will be a great fit for your
Failure is also an achievement, with a negative result, opposite of accomplishment. A mother that shows no interest in raising her children, the children are not productive or morally responsible end in an achievement in failure by that mother. Not all negative achievements are failures. A negative achievement can become a positive, again it depends on the achiever and what they choose do with the achievement in question. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts”- Winston Churchill. Throughout history the most successful people had a relationship with failure and still went on to make their mark on the world. You can have a live time of fails and one success to make it all worth it. “I suppose there are clues about his life there in the shut-up-and-locked room, perhaps even some traces of my mother, but better to be content with ignorance, I’ve always thought, than haunted by the truth” (Brume 101). A given opportunity to achieve (negative or positive) should not be ignored, it’s a gift of a life experience that expands your senses and enhances thought, it’s not something to be afraid of. Bravery can only be filtered through fear, being able to
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.
Traditionally, failure is seen as a negative concept and is defined as lacking success. I, on the other hand, try to put a positive spin on everything in life. I see failure as an obstacle that is experienced by all, but it does not define an individual. Failure in essence will force an individual to be more receptive to their surroundings and actions and also will force an individual to mature. Looking back on my childhood years I can now pinpoint the areas where I failed and I can confidently say that I have grown and prospered due to those failures. The three major failures I have experienced were my attention deficit issues which affected my ability to succeed in school, my anti-social habit that I let consume my early years, and my