This I Believe by Caleb F.
Everyone thinks it's bad to fail, well they don't know how to fail the right way.
Winning at failing is something that people think doesn't make sense, they just need to
know how to do it. All you need to do is learn from your mistakes you made to fail at
something, once you do this you'll have finally won at failing. People are afraid of failing
because they think what they'll fail at is a one-time thing, if it is a one-time thing then
don't worry, when another opportunity comes then they will know what to do if they took
their mistake with them. In my life, I've failed at many things including friends, jobs,
people, and family, but the only way I have learned to fix the problems is to learn from it
and apply it to the future.
Some mistakes can lead to a new idea such as a new invention or a new recipe.
Chefs tend to go by the phrase, “there are no mistakes in cooking only ways to improve
or change”. Bob Ross even mentioned in nearly every episode of “The Joy of Painting”,
the fact that there are only “happy little accidents” and that every mistake that is made
can always be turned into something better.
Examples of accidental inventions are the x-ray, medicine, and the pacemaker. These
inventions were mere mistakes that someone made but yet they have come to help us
so much today. Just think about how you could one day have your life saved by a
mistake from years ago. This is why you should never be afraid to make a mistake, you
can always improve on the worst of problems.
Basically, you should take away the fact that things happen, some we can control
and others we can't. The universe is based on unpredictability and far odds, and the
chances of someone making a mistake are more common than you think.
Learning from your mistakes is an important skill to have, not only just to win at
failing but the mistake can sometimes be the fix to the problem, and all that is needed is
for someone to apply the mistake. My senior quote is “you can win at failing if you learn
the mistakes you made to fail”, instead of joking and making fun, I wanted to put
something that would actually be useful to people. I'm usually not useful to anyone but
for the rest of this school's life, when someone goes to the library and sees my
quote, they will have something to actually take away from mine.
