Chris' Christian Blog

Failure

"Failure" 

I have to agree with Coco Chanel in saying that "Success is achieved by those eho don't know that failure is inevitable."

I have been a writer since I can remember. The only thing I ever wanted to do was be a published author and know that people everywhere were reading my words. I spent my entire life in pursuit of that goal. I received enough rejection slips that I could literally have wallpapered the White House with them but quitting was never an option for me. In my mind there was no way I was going to fail. People close to me, particularly my own family, ridiculed me all the time for pursuing my dream. I was considered lazy. I was called a dreamer. I was considered insane. I was basically worthless. My mother often told me that my problem was that I was unwilling to accept an entry level position. Instead I wanted to start at the top and work my way down. Ridicule was all I knew but I was unwilling to give up. I believed in myself whether anybody else did or not. I'm an old school writer. I didn't believe in self-publishing. I saw it as vanity. If my work was quality a publisher would pay the publishing costs. It took years but finally in 2003 I won my first contract. Another followed in 2005 and two more in 2010. So failure never entered my mind. The only failure tome is one who never tries.