Failure

Wow so I have a really bad grade in Chemistry and that's so bad because I want to eventually major in that. Also I've been sick a lot recently. Man. October is not my month. Anyway, I've been wanting to write this for a long time, so here's a short thing on failure:

"Failure is not an option."

False. Failure is a plausible, if not viable option. Sometimes it's better to fail. A failed suicide attempt. A failed drug run. And while there are a lot of extreme examples like that, there's a more common way failing can actually help people: it makes someone human. If you fail, if you've admitted defeat, you've announced to the world "I AM HUMAN," which is the least human thing to do nowadays. People are so caught up with being perfect and being amazing and just being right that they forget about what's really going on. No, not the economy. Not the third-world countries with starving children. What's going on is we, as humans, are getting farther and farther away from being human that it's scary. Now, with some things it's good to be "more than human". We want good doctors, good educators; I'm not saying we should throw away everything we've achieved and restart, we just need to look back at our roots and appreciate what we (as humans) have achieved. Depending on your religious beliefs, we've evolved from neanderthals and landed on the moon. We've utilized fire and gone through a ridiculous number of wars. Is this getting through to anyone? We're not perfect, we're never going to be perfect, but we are perfectly imperfect and that's the main achievement of humanity. Failure ties all this together by forcing us to see that we are human but we're still great because we're human. We've attempted and failed, we gave it our all, however much that is, and didn't make it. And we learned from it. We're not going to retake that test without studying, we're not going to try that ridiculous stunt with out better preparations, and we're sure as hell not going to do that again. And the truth is, it's hard to fail. It's hard to put in everything and get out nothing. It's hard to prove to the world that you're not perfect. In order to fail, you have to first learn, and grow, and try, and give, and push and push and push until it doesn't work, and when you sit down as the dust settles and the sky begins to fall, you've successfully failed, you've finally achieved that imperfect perfection we strive for, and you are officially human.

Much love from the girl in tight jeans, GinnaaayMarie.