Glorious Failures

In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. ~ Cassius

It is even glorious to fail...

     It is even glorious to fail...

                                                Is it?

If you have read past quote Monday posts or even some random Friday posts, you may have come to realize that I like pondering over the concept of failure. I may not have blatantly said the word failure, but there are many that have the undertones of failures and success. 

So, do I agree with this quote?

If you take into consideration the person that said it, Cassius, and what he did, went against Julius Caesar and helped prod Cicero and Brutus to lead the assignation against Caesar, I don't know. 

For one thing I can say about the quote and the person, he held it very true. Cassius did feel like he and the Senators did fail because they did not kill Marc Antony who later seized control of Rome. But even though he failed, he still accomplished the main goal even though Rome had many Caesars after that and some in my opinion a little worse than Julius Caesar.

SO is it glorious to fail even when there are great attempts to be made?

I would have to say yes and maybe not for the exact reason or maybe for the exact reason (I do not believe I am a complicated person, but have unfortunately been told otherwise).

Think of a story, any story. What must all characters do? There has to be an inciting incident that draws them out to do something whether they are to fail or succeed. The only thing we can predict is that they must take that first step. Whether it is Elizabeth seeing Darcy for the first time or Arthur pulling a sword from a stone or Hazel meeting Gus for the first time, they each accepted the invitation of the inciting incident. Each story listed was a moment that led to something greater. Was there heartbreak, betrayal, love, hope, and death? Yes, but how can those endings taste as sweet if there wasn't any failure?

The way that I have been viewing life for a while and maybe this explains a lot about me is that you need to embrace failure. My gosh I even wear a ring that has the words LAM 3:19 (The verse says: I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall). I wear this thumb ring everyday to remind me of what I have gone through and to appreciate what I have.

For example: I finally have a career and am working as an event specialist. I LOVE it! Not because it is a career, but I am doing something I was trained to do and am actually using the degrees I got. I now see the correlation between the training I got in college and what I am doing. But that is not the only point; it's also the fact that I remember the struggle up until I got this position. I can honestly point you back to the posts that had the undertone of feeling lost, complacent, frustrated and unworthy. Having to go through that has made me appreciate this position so SO much because I don't want to ever go back to the phase that I endured during this past summer and fall. I have direction and the only way I can/will move is forward.

So how did that relate to failure? I had been rejected by tons and I mean tons of positions that I could have simply written myself off and not even applied. I took the step even though I felt defeated and applied and happily got the position.

In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. ~ Cassius

I would have to agree. If you don't attempt anything, then you automatically fail. But, even if you fail and tried, there is a type of success because you did something rather than nothing.