Fun with Failure

The Tryping My Best Moment of the Week #25

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If you ask me what my greatest fear(s) are, they would be as follows: house fires, falling down the stairs with a fatal consequence, spiders, and failure. Most of these are easy enough to avoid or, at the very least, take precautions against. But failure? That is a hard one to avoid. 

I have failed many many times. Well, I suppose that depends on your definition of failure. But according to my own constantly evolving definition, I have failed many times. When I was younger, every rejection felt like a major failure. I don’t necessarily (always) feel like that anymore thanks, in part, to the many rejections of my youth.

There are ways in which I still fear failure. (Those are for my therapist to know and me to find out when she hits me over the head with them.) And there are other ways that I now revel in failure. It’s mostly in cooking and baking but IT STILL COUNTS.