Sometimes we fail. Sometimes we succeed. But what I’ve found is that I learn just as much, if not more, from failures as I do from successes. Each outcome that we encounter in life can teach us something – we just have to have to look for it.
Having “good” or “bad” days is all relative. You can’t have one without the other. It’s hard to appreciate the good days without the bad, because eventually we begin to take it for granted. How often do you think of how you’re feeling physically? Probably not very often if you aren’t in pain or sick. But when you are sick, you realize how good you had it.
The same can be said for successes and failures. If you only ever succeeded, it would be hard to appreciate. But if you’ve had to grind your way towards success – getting up early, staying up late, working tirelessly on a project, getting knocked down – and then, after all of your efforts, you finally succeed? There’s not much that feels better than that.
As Ellen DeGeneres says in the quote above, there will be times when we succeed and times when we fail, and both are equally important. Embrace failures. Don’t run from them. Have a positive outlook that this too shall pass, and when it does, you’ll be better for it.