To Learn To Fly

To know success is to know failure. If you don’t know what is second-rate you cannot not know what is excellent. If you do not know what failure is, you do not know what success is. To teach students to succeed they must know failure if they are to avoid it.

Failing is needed to avoid the bigger failures and reach the bigger successes. When you have a misstep you are able to see where you went awry, it opens your eyes. Furthermore, it enables you to help others who are experiencing the same predicament as you experienced.

One of the greatest problems of failing is not necessarily the failing, but rather that people aren’t allowed to fail. When first trying out life, people need to know others will catch them. Otherwise, people will feel that failure is totally consuming and debilitating. However, a false step is only as bad as gravity or fire, when in the wrong situation.

If people are not allowed to fail, they are not able to reach success for fear of failing. Failings are just steps. Or maybe something that should be categorized as learning. To fail is to learn. To not fail is to not know and understand something fully. If you know something well, you know it’s good points and its failings.

It would be better to know someone who has experienced failure, than someone who has only walked the smooth path. For if things go wrong, someone who has never experienced failure will be suddenly thrown into the deep end. However, if someone who has experienced defeat or loss, they know how to pick themselves up, and whether with others or alone, they can help others.

Failing is good to a certain extent, what is not so educational is when people deal with it inappropriately. People need to change their minds on failure, because we learn from our mistakes. Life isn’t a smooth path, and failure is just part of life. There is nothing to fear in failure when you have others to pick you up or when it makes you a superior person. If we truly learn from our mistakes we can only get closer to achieving success.