Don't be afraid to fail - Something I learned from a child.
“Failure is a part of the process. You just learn to pick yourself back up.”
It's a new month!!!
How excited are you to see the month of “Ember”? I love this season because we are almost getting to the end of the year. It has been God's faithfulness in the last month and here we are again, getting prepared to work and commit all to God's hand. Let's keep reminding ourselves that it will be better, but we should keep moving on. When we fail, we shouldn't be worried, but stand up and keep trying.
Trust me! Children are your go-to if you want to learn a lot about life. They're too gentle for you to learn the best of life. All you have to do is be with them and you'll learn a lot. They remind you of the way you used to be when you were their age. This is why I enjoy being with them, to get more life advice. That's also why I chose to join the children's department at my church. I adore kids, and one of my dreams is to have them around me and be their confidant.
We cannot always do things the right way.
Can you look back at your childhood memories? In school, we want to be the first and nothing else. You feel weak and sad when you don't do things right at the beginning while you see other children getting by with it. We were so young and naive back then because we didn't realize that life isn't about making it all better every time. Missing it along the way does not make you a loser, but not being able to keep up and try to see if you would get better.
I was taking these kids, a revision of the Sunday School manual on Sunday, which I prepared some questions for them, and also came along with some rewards as a way to motivate them. There is this little boy of age 5 who wouldn't want to accept being a loser even when he kept giving the wrong answer, and when another person gives the correct answer, he starts to cry.
Why? He felt that he could have provided the right answer and wanted to continue to do so.
We learn when we fail and still attempt.
We have people like him. They don't want to fail the first attempt, and therefore they're afraid to try. They'd rather not try anything than try and fail. Life is never like that. We can't be right all the time, there would be wrongs, but what we decide to do after that, is what matters.
Failure is not an end in the world. We keep trying after every wrong result until we get it right, and at that moment, we have learnt lessons, and it would be easier to apply them in the next trial.
There was a story @olawalium mentioned sometimes back. A man lost his money, but was not sad, and when he was confronted, he said that he never forgot how he earned the money and that he would get it back.
One thing I like about the man is applying faith and courage to start all over because that was a mistake. Everyone will make mistakes at some point. The first mistake is always forgivable, but when you keep making the same mistakes, it means that you are still unable to learn.
Mistakes are bound to occur. We would make errors because it is not intentional. Don't be discouraged, you just have to find another way to make it work for you rather than wallowing in self-pity all your life.
There is no harm in not doing it properly. We were never supposed to be perfect in all areas anyway, but we can do our best to learn from every error we made. Learning is the best, and we will never stop learning till we leave this earth.
I knew the boy was just a child and when he grows up, he will fully understand that life is not just about getting it right all the time. How do you learn when you continue to do things well? That's why life brings moments of failure for you to learn and have the courage to continue trying. That's the great thing about us.
Thanks for your time
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[September 01, 2022] (No 243 articles for the year)
We shouldn't be scared to have some failures since it's part in our lives because if we always expect a success always and if the time you failed, it will affects our mind that's why we should know and understand that fails are okay. I agree to you princess.