Demotivation

So I was checking out one of my friends' favorite websites, despair.com, when it hit me out of nowhere. I love this stuff. There is something about the pure honesty in depressing statements like, "Failure: When your best just isn't good enough" and "Dysfunction: The only consistent feature of all of your dissatisfying relationships is you" that makes an impact. Maybe it's the fact that for a brief moment, we feel like we are not being patronized. Sure, we all need motivation, and I am one of the first people to feel thankful for inspirational words of wisdom, but the hard truth is that failure is a very real part of life. Often times, we want to believe that if we just give our best it will be enough, and it may be most of the time. The rest of the time, though, it isn't. We all have those moments when we come to see that the result of all of our hard work, our best so to speak, is just short of the cut off line. It sucks, it hurts, but shit happens. The best part of failure: you learn. You learn to laugh about it. So even though we don't celebrate how crappy we may feel, we have the choice to walk away laughing rather than crying. Life will throw you down, but you have to get back up and realize that failure, like success, is temporary.