"Fail again, Fail better"

That was a catchy title of an art exhibition that I visited early this year far up above the article circle in Tromso, Norway!

It made me think about all of us that might have got the feeling that "half of the population is always waiting for you to fail" everyday. And in fact, society is constantly and patiently waiting on people to commit mistakes. Late for work, didn't reached the targets for the month, bad mark on the exam, etc. Judgements and punishments will follow accordingly. Of course, I am not talking exclusively on the legally binding stuff... (like fines, tickets, etc) but I also want to add on the top of that list all the social and psychological pressure and distress that one has to deal with when "accused of failing".

Society (all of us??!!) haven't got a clue of what's going on at the individual's level when he/she fails. In most of our day-to-day judgements, we (society) do not take into account the complexity of the person as an individual and the complexity of that particular circumstance. It goes to complex... and society couldn't care less about it! Stigamatizing seems easier task and somehow sounds fair... (?) All probably due to the fact that society is fundamentally success-driven.

So...

Fail again!
...dust yourself off
Fail better...
stand... and fail again and as many times you need!

In my opinion "Failing" is necessary and is the only path to success... indeed, it is said that "if you never have failed, you have never lived". In all your attempts you will learn something new, in all attempts you live...

Dealing with "failure" is one of the most important keys for a happy life (and surprisingly no one teaches you how to deal with this). I might say here that the ultimate key is to NEVER let society drive you away from your dream. Learn from every single attempt before reaching it... there is no price for when you look back onto ALL your failures and you say:

It was totally worthed!

And then start over again...