March 20--Fail Already!

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all--in which case, you fail by default. 
--J. K. Rowling

    Failure started early. As a toddler, learning to walk, I fell-down-went-boom, often, and got back up and toddled away. You did, too. We were encouraged to keep working at it. Later on, however, when we started to dream big dreams, we may not have been so encouraged. We may have been warned about the big scary world and the consequences of daring. We may have been diminished and discouraged by people who didn't know any better. Fear of failure certainly can expand into paralysis. That's not living, as Ms. Rowling's quote so clearly states. 

    All of life is a practice. Breathing (take a big one now). Walking (you still wipe out occasionally, don't you?). Eating (you still slop something on your shirt occasionally, don't you?) Living equals messes, mistakes, screw-ups, stuff requiring amends. This goes on till the day we die, unless one cocoons away in fear. Why waste all that great practice time!?!?!

    Digging the practice,

        Leta