Failure 🆚 Successes [WEEK 150]

Yesterday I walked through the center of the city visiting the car parts stores I lost count of the number of stores and in none of them I could get the blessed spare parts which by the way are small but necessary I was too tired my feet hurt thinking what a failure and waste of time I decided to rest for a while in the square in the center of the city while I decided what to do continue walking to succeed and get the spare parts or go home with the taste of failure.

At that moment struggling with my thoughts I was approached by a former college classmate and we started talking and I told her about my odyssey and the subject of failure came up and I asked her what could be worse than failure? her answer was an imaginary success that immediately caught my attention is a way to reduce the consequences and if you do not succeed you learn from the experience and keep trying it sounded reasonable to me you may think you are on the right track even though in reality you are losing it is more like a mental success.

Her husband is an honest and hardworking man with an excellent income that allows them to live comfortably, she decided to take another university career and has a partner who gets better grades but cheats and that bothers her but what is more important to get excellent grades or to learn? If you do a survey you will realize that people associate success with the assets they have and the amount of money they have, otherwise they feel they have failed.

There is no worse deception than thinking that if you are well off financially you have not failed in life and that you have guaranteed success if we live thinking only about getting money buying things I do not know but for me there are things equally or more important than how to cultivate the spirit of what good is having money if it affects your health your family life I think that being happy with much or little you have does not make you a failure is quite the opposite you have achieved success in your life.

There is a proverb in the bible that I like very much that has great truth between failure and success.

Better is a dry morsel in peace than a house of strife full of provisions.

Life has more important things indeed money is indispensable for tranquility and emotional peace but it does not determine success, after a long conversation I said goodbye to my former classmate she went her way I went mine what do you think I kept walking and got the spare parts for a moment I felt it was a failure to keep looking I almost gave up but I insisted to achieve success, that is the secret persist persist and never give up.