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Laurelovely01 (Original Message)

Sent: 12/21/2001 6:18 AM

Im puzzling thru my perceptions of failure....

it has occurred to me that within every failure there is success and within every success is failure.

What are your thoughts on this?

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solace©

Sent: 12/21/2001 10:33 AM

it's like that whole business of hindsight... when ya look back at something you view as a success there will always be one thing you feel you should have done better, or even just done... and when ya look back on a failure you'll recognize where you did well or even exceptionally well although in the moment all you might have seen was what you did not acomplish.........or maybe ther's never really failure 'cept maybe failure to see that it's just moments and choices and none of them are really any better or worse than any other moments or choices - there is just perception and that perception is often what determines individual success or failure as in if you percieve that you failed then maybe you did, but only until you change your mind. or you could chose to forget about it all together and then it wouldn't really matter if it was failure or success or both or none 'cause you wouldn' t be thinking of it (pokey stick of the subconscious aside) and if you ain't thinking of it then well you ain't ramblin at three am like me.

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From:

intense_female

Sent: 12/21/2001 5:21 PM

I've done and said alot of stupid things. There are a few people I know that will stop me when I do something stupid and point it out to me... to learn from. I hated that. It would send me into a whirlwind of drama. I would direct all my frusteration at myself towards the person that pointed it out to me. Then something would happen and I would learn from it. And now in some sick way I look forward to having someone point things out to me. Somehow I learned to turn it from a whirlwind drama into the excitement of opening a christmas present.

Analogy: Being 15 and getting butterflies in your stomach and hating it.... and being married awhile and thinking back on those butterflies wishing you could feel them again.

Its sort of all about being alive and all about growing. If you stub your toe and your sitting there yelling about it and an amputee wheels on by you does it occur to you that at least you have a toe to stub? Does anyone ever wake up and think Glory God ! I hurt today and i'm so glad to hurt because it tells me i'm alive !

Why is sucsess important? How can you fail? What standard is it your holding yourself to? (listens to her own words)