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Wednesday, Jun 6 2007 - failure is not an option

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failure is not an option
but it looms heavily
mightily
in every thought i have
in every step i take

what if i can't
what if i don't

i fear my mistakes
when i preach
we are all human

i fear never reaching my goal
when i know
the journey is long

i fear impatience
at giving up
perhaps
just when i am
about to turn a corner

failure is not an option
but it is a question
i ask myself every day

what if i can
what if i do

i am stronger than this
i can beat the demons down
down to the ground
with every pound
i shed

i am a village
that supports itself
but nurtures all
who take the steps
along side me
i learn from them too.

i am human
i accept my faults
as spokes on a wheel
one can not function without
the other
as in life

i am not invincible
but i am resilient
the comeback kid
try again and again
because failure is not an option

it is the enemy i fight every day
along with the demons
i beat to the ground
with every pound
i shed


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a decade ago

Oops, I don't know how that winky face got in there!!! :o!!! I'd better just be flexible about it ;) (I meant to put that one in there!)!!! Keep at it :thumbu2:! With you, Kristen :heart1:

by KRITTI

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a decade ago

:hi: Grace, There is a Japanese proverb that says something that governs my whole life: "Fall down 7 times, Get up 8 times." Losing this weight, for me, is just a matter of not giving up. I like how you know that "failure is not an option," BUT are still flexible to admit it when your strength and confidence wane (because they will, and it is at those time, or immediately afterwards, that prove whether we will succeed or "fail";). It is that inward honesty/integrity combined with flexibility that will not only garentee our success, but also make it a worthwhile, meaning-full, and lasting journey :smile1:! Sorry if I came off preachy, but your poem struck a resonating cord with me! Love you and walking with you, Kristen :heart1:

by KRITTI

1.

a decade ago

On that subject, from a favorite book of mine called "Failure is Written in Pencil", this quote: "Albert Einstein was the greatest physicist of the modern era and probably the greatest of all time. Yet he was unable to speak fluently until he was nine years old. After being expelled from high school, he tried to enter the Federal Institute of Technology (FIT) in Zurich, Switzerland, but failed the entrance exam. Einstein went back to high school; two years later he passed the exam and was admitted to FIT. Not since Copernicus proved that the earth revolves around the sun has anyone changed the way we view the universe as Albert Einstein did." He says somewhere else in his book that the one thing successful people have in common is failure! So, you're in good company. :)

by BUN201

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