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FAILING FAILURE FALTERS

         

Prompt: Where do you think fear of failure comes from? Was there ever something that you had feared you’d fail at but didn’t? 

   
         
         
         A very big, painful, topic that touches almost everyone from childhood through old age.
         How about unsuccessfulness?
         Or nonfullfillment
         Or bankruptcy
         
         or more serious kinds of failures: abortion, miscarriage, breakdown, stillborn. or a simple malfunction.
         
         Then there’s a mistake, a fiasco, a mess,
         
         Or in showbusiness we have a turkey, a flop, a bomb, a washout, a boxoffice disaster! (I think ‘Pan’ just had one this weekend.)
         
         The fear of failure drives all humans to try, hope, wish...to avoid all the above plus about a thousand other kinds of failures.
         
         Little things like: out of gas, dead battery, parking ticket,
         Microsoft’s blue screen or a dead black screen. Our highly technical world lives with failure every day.
         
         In other parts of the world a hungry child is a kind of failure, or a hundred-thousand refugees, or a million homeless.
         
         Brace up folks...>>>iggy