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Wander project there really is no failure if we choose…

One of the things I always start the classes I teach out with is, the most straightforward answer is usually the best. Spartan is a good thing. It allows us to move quickly within a solution. The more complex a system is, the more likely there is a point of failure. I have been having a wonderful conversation about Murphy’s law. For those of you that have never heard Murph’s Law, it is merely “Anything that can go wrong will.” If we break the law into component pieces, it speaks to the concept of failure. Failure always seems to be a bad thing. The ending of the movie Titanic would be much different except for the inability of the bulkhead system of the great ship and the resulting sinking problem.

Failure, however, is something we should examine. It is ok to fail. If you fail, it means you tried—so many things, so many ways to fall flat on our faces. One of the often-cited definitions of insanity is doing the same thing over and over but expecting different results each time. That is to be more the concept of variation or possibly even the concept of improvement, but many call that the definition or clinical view of insanity. We work on perfecting things, so doing the same thing over and over, with the goal eventually of perfecting it, isn’t crazy. I know from my many friends that spend far more time thinking about these things that we need to see the big picture.

I wanted to examine failure. Failure is an acceptable part of human existence. It is part of nature. We, as machines start failing the moment we are born. Life is, after all, a series of failures. What we do between those failures are the successes we have and carry with us. It is ok to fail. It is ok to drop the ball. Sometimes we have to die. There is no stigma attached (hopefully). I will end with the thought presented in the poem, Casey at-bat. Casey let two strikes go by before he swung his bat. That was a failure of choice. It was a loss born wholly of Casey’s arrogance. Those are the failures that we as people are least likely to recover from quickly. Failure is a part of life, what we do with our failures shows where we are as people!

This work is Copyright DocAndersen. Any resemblance to people real or fictional in this piece is accidental (unless explicitly mentioned by name.)

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  1. That’s an interesting discussion piece about failure.

    In absolute terms, what is a failure?

    Can anything really ever fail?

    There are certain laws of nature, can these laws ever fail too?

    A failure is an unexplained variance to what is expected to happen, or to take place, from expected inputs, unexpected consequences emerge.

    Laws can fail if they are man-made rules, laws etc, but the Laws God places in place can never fail until he removes them himself.

    God gives us commands rather than laws sometimes too, as we cannot lawise love, but it is still better to follow the law of love, which is to love as much as possible, at all times, and then all will fall into place, as love is the master law, over all other laws.

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          • Yes, those sort of places exist here too, and eventually, the animals are adopted back out again, hopefully to a nicer family, next time.

            The people wanting them are vetted too well at times, though.

            Some of the women working there can be dragons themselves.

            I met up with such a particularly fiery one once, who told me and my wife in no uncertain terms, that we were unsuitable to adopt such a pet, which was a small Chihuahua dog, of all types, on the sole reason, that we had not had a dog yet at all, at that time.

            We subsequently did buy one from a pet shop, and I believe that we were good owners, despite that initial assessment, from the dragon lady.

            How some people get such jobs, I will never know.

            Perhaps she also was mistreating all of the dogs in that home too, I suspect.

            A dragon, never stops breathing out fire.

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          • Yes, being blinded by our own eyes, in trying too hard to see the right thing to do, is pulling the blinds down on our own contact with the awareness of the truth in the situation too.

            Sorry, that’s a mouthful.

            I mean that we cannot then see the wood for the tress.

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  2. What is failure but success turned upside down? 😜 Whenever I go for something or start something, my primary goal is not really success but only to see how far I can go. The only important consideration for me is whether I am happy or not doing that 🤷🏻‍♀️. The only people who never fail are the same people who never try.

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