Here am I sitting alone pondering moves on the chess table while a thought passed by with a familiar feeling as to what failure is... failure to me is an encouragement to get up and keep moving forward whereas other people see it as a way to stop and give up. Failure was meant to be a way to teach you what not to do within the next attempt... we should all start to remember that failure and mistakes work hand in hand with each other because we learn from our mistakes but why don't we learn from our failures?... we shouldn't think of failure as a way to stop pursuing our dreams... we all know that some dreams are meant to be shattered but how will you know that dream that has to be shattered is yours without even trying... I take failure as a way of building character because the experience we heed from there is impeccable... oblivion is only a state where one can choose to be in.