By | Staci Taustine | www.lifehack.org
They write songs, books, inspirational quotes, and movies about it, but they always talk about failure in the past tense, like it’s somehow okay to discuss once we have transcended, made meaning, and are back on the come up. News flash—failure sucks. When you feel like you have failed in life, it can be difficult to feel motivated and identify the meaningful messages we are intended to learn, mostly because we are too angry or broken-hearted to look for them.
Feeling like a failure in life is energy-consuming and takes many forms. The only guarantee in life is that we will, in fact, fail. We will do so repeatedly, and when failures compound, it can feel like the earth is crumbling beneath our feet.
Here are some ways how failure can look and feel like.
Failure can look like:
- Getting fired
- Going bankrupt or experiencing financial hardship
- Missing a promotion
- Getting ghosted
- Breaking a diet
- Going through a divorce, sometimes more than once
- Standing by when you wanted to stand up
- Failing to complete a major goal or just your daily task list
- Doing everything right and still losing where it seems to count.
- Something you poured time into coming out all wrong (IKEA fail, anyone?)
- Your twenties (just kidding—well, kind of)
