Currently listening to: Try Again – Aaliyah
And if at first you don’t succeed (first you don’t succeed)Then dust yourself off and try againYou can dust it off and try again, try again
How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success?
If failure has taught me anything, it’s that pain is a damn good teacher. I’m a sore loser—not outwardly, but internally, I stew. I get salty at myself, replaying where I went wrong so I never make the same mistake twice.
Take, for example, the time I ambitiously registered for a volleyball class at uni at 0700. Bold move for a night owl. I convinced myself that starting my day with exercise would set the tone—energized, productive, ready to conquer the world.
Spoiler alert: it did not. I gaslit myself.
That snooze button became my worst enemy. I’d hit it over and over, either showing up late or skipping class altogether. The result? A B-. The lowest grade I had ever received. And to make it worse, I used to play high school volleyball. That one misstep tanked my GPA, and I had no one to blame but myself.
Lesson learned: know thyself. Wake up by 0600 to go to a 0700 morning class? Never again.
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