When you have lived in the world long enough, its not that hard to think about failure, and what it is. It has the labels of being a great teacher, and has the pride of giving humans their most heaviest emotions, and the prime of its championship is that all in life are working hard at it so they won't fail.
Fail, in a certain aspect of what they desire of course. I mean, they don't want to fail. And because of the slippery platform that all has to go through to get to the other side, we try to find the shoes with the best friction and learn stratergies on how to mantain balance, just so as to be able to heave that sigh of relief and punch that fist in the air while looking onto the others falling down into the lava pits and going, "Hey. You okay anot?" Okay, well, that is a very narrow instance of the gist of failure, but it does well enough to explain its.... way.

What is failure? There are now, those that assume it to be a perception. As in, you define failure. You set the standards. Within what scope? Expectaions perhaps. And surrounding influence. But ultimately, you control what failure is and what failure is not, and to say that you have 'failed' is but a perception. Logically sufficient, but I don't think many buy its case.( Simply because no one is slowing down, and everyone is still in a competitive form.) Of course, as any average competitor would know (let me use 'student', as thats the situation I'm in) there is the boundaries of what success really is and what failure really is. It is ambigously defined, only not speaked about. It depends on who you are (identity) and what you can do (capability). For students (and I guess most other cases), the gauage is on the basis of what you have done during a certain period. -- A Test. And yeah, the 'Test' word is a regular in the vision of failure. Nobody wants to fail their 'big test'. (It just so happens that, for students, its literal) So in that case, the standards that would determine the failure are an absoulute. Its just that its pretty vague. If we do not consider the official guidelines, the personal expectations and the 'mist that surrounds the falls', its hard to tell (from a third party viewpoint) when you have failed. In the most basic sense, 'you screw up' = 'you fail'.

And as its the big thing in that failure concerns everyone, everyone would then have a great emotion to it... and that is, fear. We fear failure. (Unless someone is trying to kill you or something, but lets be reasonable with the exceptions) There are those who tell us that its okay to fail, but you must always try again till you get it, and well, thats logical bullshit. But in actuality, there are the biggies that we must not fail. Because of the simple matter of consequences. If we fail to meet up to a standard, we got to face those big guns and before they rail at us we have much to do...
We can put the blame on others and circumstance.
We can deny the existance of the failure and try to be distracted from it.
We can play down the impact.
Etc.

Oh yeah, we can accept it and move on.
And the thing that transcends all this is... REGRET. We can regret about stuff. Many idiots, including myself, have spent time living in the zone of retrospection and its not a nice place. The food sucks, the service is bad. Even the air is polluted.

Anyway, the main things of failure that humans dislike are things involving goals. Subjects that revolve around life and the laws that seem to run it. (Money, relationships, status etc.) You know, the usual preachy bullshit that everyday 'wanna-make-a-world-a-better-place-people' go ranting about.

So, if we're so afriad to fail for such matters, but totally ignorant and self-assuming for matters involving missing the mark for heaven and hell and related spirtuality matters, even if there is a way allowed for us to walk on rather than that slippery path; what does that make us?



A bunch of morons that walk around the place and going 'Yes! I can do it!'.

Point proven. (What point? Look. At the title.)

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