vacant_junk_lot (where i dump these thoughts)

Tuesday, April 10, 2007
3:03 AM

failure is a pre-requisite to success

(this post was made last april 6, saved as a draft)

i'm feeling gloomy over a friend who's about to leave because she went over the number of units one can fail and a friend who is so down in the dumps because of a failed mark on one course subject.

i really hate numbers. i really do. anything related to math(trigo, geom, algeb, stat, finance grr) and i hate how numbers can get us depressed. how it can make people feel worthless. it is indeed easy to say that "those are just grades, don't lament over them" but grades do matter honestly. it is not that grades will measure one's being but grades are more of like an evaluation result of yourself. how you fared may also be similar to what have you been doing with your life. i admit i've been through this so many times, this last semester was one hell of a semester and i couldn't be any thankful that at least i made it.

however, i suggest we not let ourselves be manipulated by this numbers. our worth will not be measured by this shit stuff, all this are only for the time being. there's always tomorrow. like how we should always get over our past achievements because time does not stop there, we should also forget our failures and look forward to making up for it. for that i remembered from a poem that i have read when i was still in highschool and what it wants to convey got clear to me just now. the poem reads: "heaven is not reached at a single bound, but we build the ladder by which we rise."

if you are the type who takes everyone as a rival. if you are mr or ms competitive, you should know that not everyone can be on top. if everyone is on top how would we know who's on top? isn't it nice to think that some people who fail is part of the balance of nature. hehe..

it's not really that bad to fail. i already did but i'm back on my feet. after all isn't a very smooth going life too boring? but remember that we can only fail at one thing once and learn from it (ugh cliche huh?) . we can cry over these things but after that we should forget. failures are part of life. if pain makes us feel alive, then failures affirms our existence. yay we're alive!! haha..
(i hope *you* guys could read this..):p

think happy thoughts!

The girl
full name: Christine Joyce Placino
age: 18 yrs. old! woohoo!
birthday: April 23, 1989
one weird thing about me is: i talk a lot..i mean really..
"it doesn't hurt to be optimistic, you can always cry later" - nope, not my principle..
"it doesn't hurt to be a pessimist, at least you won't cry later" - yep, that's better
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wants..
ice cream!
I.S.W.A.K VCD
dulce de leche cake! miss that
more of my korean crushes
good grades...waah
go swimming!