Failure

 I admire those with grit and iron will whose motto is that failure is not an option. I wish to qualify their stance a little, while ultimately and in essence heartily agreeing with them.

First, failure is not only an option but it an inevitability. We all experience countless failures and setbacks. Our disappointments teach us how to live, how to win, and how to cope with life and its troubles. We may even experience a deeply sad, tragic life, but victory or deep success is never giving up, never ceasing to strive to improve life for God, the Good Spirits, for others and ourselves. Trying is victory: worldly sucess is a nice extra if it works out for us.

Failure is the approach and the existential state of innaction, the outlook of a weak loser that gives up, or does not take up the fight in the first place.

But the hardy, upbeat, courageous winners that do not accept failure as their destiny: they are admirable and correct. For them, failure is not an option.

For quitters and losers failure is their destiny because they would not have it any other way.