The Beauty of Losses

The other day I was looking through an old journal and found this very long interesting entry I had made a few years back after I had failed my professional exams for the first time. It was one hell of an emotional piece, and to a great extent naive. But you see,  before this, I had never failed any exam in my life. I'm not the straight A's student but I had never seen a fail in my result slip, ever. And this was the last of my six papers. I was upset, disappointed and ashamed. So I sat down and wrote my long entry on loosing,  how it was never going to be a part of me. Pretty naive, I know now.

A few years after that entry, i know better. I have learnt to embrace my losses, as ugly and horrifying as they come. My failures are as much of me as my successes.  and let's face it, as long as you're mortal, you'll face a lot of them. It maybe that one stupid decision,  a bad call or just the turns of life. 

The only difference is how we decide to deal with the losses, we can get better or bitter. And I've always chosen to be better. I will withdraw,  cry if I need to but eventually I'll take the time to evaluate my failure. If I need to loose some people to get better, I do so. If I need to put in more effort or time into something,  I do it. If I need to change my attitude, I do just that. And if I can't seem to get better, I pray harder. And yes, there are those losses I don't even understand what the lesson is at that time, those I just pray for strength to move along,  it may take time but it eventually makes sense and the lesson is aparent at some later stage In life. I belive that it all works for my good. 

So people,  learn to love your failures, just as much as you love your successes. If there's one thing I know,  it's that no experience in life is wasted. So squeeze as much lessons out of your losses. And don't even be afraid to make them,  everyone else is making theirs anyway, knowingly or unknowingly. So go on out,  live life and make some mistakes!