Day 308 of wisdom
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
George Bernard Shaw
Living is a life long process of learning, doing, and becoming. No one has ever become anything only by wishing everyone who has become anything has done so by trying, failing, trying again and again until they succeed. Living is not merely the act of existing or surviving, it is a conscious, deliberate act of ensuring that our presence in the world is felt, it is an act of making impact, it is an act being useful.
It is far more honourable to be known as a failure in a particular field or endeavour in life than to be known to do nothing at all about anything, to not be recognised as someone who have attempted to do anything, even if it ended in failure. A person who has failed at something has learnt lessons from that failure that someone who hasn't tried doing that thing can ever learn anywhere else. Failure in itself is not a permanent situation. There are no failures anywhere, only quitters, it is the man who quits that fails.
Nikki Giovanni once said, “Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts.” Sophia Loren also said, “Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.” It is only in a meaningful endeavour that one make mistakes, no mistakes can be made on a journey that leads to nowhere, there are no mistakes on an endeavour that has no purpose, but a worthwhile cause will always be prone to mistakes because no good thing ever comes easy. Mistakes increases our knowledge, triggers our minds to keep a state of alertness that gives us the ability to think outside the box and retrace our steps.
A life lived in caution is a life not lived, we must explore, we must put our strength, talent, skills, and abilities to use, we must not allow them remain dormant and wasted. As Fyodor Dostoyevsky would say, "The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for." We must live for a cause or else we would live for nothing and die for nothing. Fear should not limit us from experiencing new horizons, from reaching new heights, from pursuing our dreams and life purpose, we must dare to go, and to grow or forever remain low.
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