I’m not a writer. To date I have not been payed for any piece of writing that I have personally generated. But what I am is perhaps better than being a writer.
I’m a Happy Man. Which is pretty rare. Hard to be a Man these days. A Real Man. Not just a “Man’s Man…” or a “Domesticated Man…” Let alone, a Happy Man.
This one dude once said,
“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.”
His name escapes me, it’s just out there Blowing in the Wind of my memory, forgotten about Like A Rolling Stone.
But while it is interesting who said This or That, who said What is not important if What said is Full O’ Truth, isn’t it?
So I Think on this interpretation of what it is to be a Man, or at least a Successful one. I’ve felt as if a Man should be successful. Not a Failure.
Now we are getting into the weeds aren’t we? If you remember this is not about what it is To Be a Man, this is suppose to be about Failure. And here we go.
As a Man (not a Ma’am) I feel as if Failure is the one thing that scares us more than anything else. Thus the opening About Men…
I’ve put myself into situations that were very dangerous, to the body. I was not that afraid, in fact I felt great, most of the time. There’s something to be said about a Dance With Death that maybe Half the population will not understand.
To Davy Jones’s Locker, I was not afraid. To Speak True Words to someone and have them Not Heard, the idea Was terrifying.
And so we avoid failure. To whatever End. The problems that arise because of this aversion to Failure -which is really just and aversion to feeling afraid- Good Lord!
So we never make ourselves uncomfortable with these aspects of our lives and thus we never Truly grow, Thus we are Dead before we Ever hit the Ground.
I will tell you He (or She or etc.) who Reads, welcome Failure into your life. I can now say that I have failed at so many things that I have become inoculated to the Fear it posits in the back of my Head. Now, I’m careful with what potential failures I choose to approach. I will generally believe that I can succeed at This or That but I now know that if I fail in the process, that it will be Swell. And you know what Reader, I’ve never felt better.
Ultimately, what I am Speaking to -On Failure- is that the only True Failure you can incur on Yourself, is the Failure to never Launch, for fear of missing the Mark. Just step Out Into the World and burn. Burn everything to the ground so to speak, Yourself included because…
[…]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!
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