Failure: (noun) lack of success; the omission of expected or required action.
In today’s society, this is one of the most popular topics of interest. Who failed whom and how. What failed what and why. Whether it’s a failed test, a failed marriage, or a failed attempt at cooking a meal, everyone wants to know who did it, when they did it, and who doesn’t know about it so that they can tell them.
Why? Why do we put such emphasis on such a sore subject? No one likes to fail, so why do we take enjoyment in others’ misfortunate events? Why do we find peace in someone else’s lack of success? Why does it make us feel more accomplished when others accomplish less? But more importantly, how can we change this mindset?
Failure is nothing more than a reroute. A famous psychologist named Albert Ellis once said that it is not the events in your life that cause you problems, but how you THINK about the events. If you replace the irrational beliefs that accompany this defeat with rational ones, you devoid the ability to have failure. You cry when you fail a test because you think you’re a failure, not because you actually are one; so instead of letting yourself have these self-defeating thoughts, you have to change them into optimistic ideas.
Everyone has heard the saying, “failure is not an option,” and I personally feel that this is 100% accurate. Failure is not and cannot be an option. At all. End of discussion. Not because I think everything is sunshine and rainbows, but because I believe in God’s higher plan. To say that I have failed is to say that I lack success in an event. And to say I lack success is to say that it didn’t pan out the way it should have; the way God intended it to. So are we saying that when we fail, God failed us? Are we saying that our failures are his absence in our life? How can we be believers of an almighty, all encompassing God if we think we have the ability to fail? How can we believe that he knows all, is always there, and is with us always if we think failure is an option? If we think failure happens?
Failure is not an option because it is never a result. It isn’t that we lack success in an event; it’s just that God had a different kind of success in mind for us. He had another plan, another route, and another idea that is going to takes its place.
Failure is not an option because there is some sort of success in every situation.
Failure is not an option because failure doesn’t exist.
Failure is not an option because God is the only option.
So how can we change the mindset? How do we break the trend? How do we get rid of failure?
Stop talking about it.
“With God, all things are possible.” –Matthew 19:26
Until next time<3
