We live in a world where perfection is demanded, as a matter of fact, if you’re not perfect, it could make things harder for you. You have to be perfect, and the price that you get to pay for showing even the tiniest bit of imperfection could be dire. Letting it show that you’re human like everyone else, or that you deserve a break, will be treated as a case of national security.
But then, how can we grow when we’re in a world that abhors failure? You only grow by learning, and you learn from your mistakes and those of others. But then, if no one is allowed to make mistakes, how then do we learn for real? If society is so strict about mistakes, prompting those who make them to keep quiet about them, how will everyone else learn from them and be better? Isn’t this concerning?
Many times, when people come out to admit that something they worked on failed, they’re not usually met with kindness and sympathy. We either ridicule them for daring to fail or simply scold them. As if failing at something is the same as a child being naughty. You simply scold them and tell them not to do it again. Just because something failed doesn’t mean that the person who failed at it was unserious. It could just be that they had not figured it out completely, and it cost them the project.
And as a result of this, many people prefer to keep their failings to themselves. Stories that would have helped to inspire and motivate the rest of the world would be buried deep inside because they don’t want people to see that part of them. They’re scared of either the ridicule, the mockery, or the scolding that will come from such a revelation. This is also the reason that many times, people find it hard to switch from something that’s clearly not working for them.
There are those who don’t want to leave certain relationships, not because it’s good, but because they don’t want to be known to be unable to save a relationship. The relationship is most likely toxic to them, they’re miserable in it. But leaving it would announce to the world that it failed, and many people don’t want to be associated with that. And so, they remain in it. This is also the case in business ventures, education… it goes on and on.
The thing is, for a world that’s so reliant on growth, why are we so hard on those who fail? When you go through the stories of some of the world’s greatest inventors, you’ll see how they failed multiple times, and they were always made fun of and mocked for being different. Many times, when they failed, people saw it as a reason for them to even press harder on them. But they learned from their mistakes and eventually, it paid off.
This is not a good strategy, it has never been and will never be. True growth can only come from wisdom, which can only be gained by learning from the mistakes we make and those of others as well. Until then, we’re just kidding ourselves.
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Hmmm! This is just the truth. Sometimes even we don't want people to know that we have failed which keeps us hiding one or two from people.
We can't actually be perfect if we never made any mistakes in life.
Thanks for sharing