Thanks to my wife who reminds me of this very important concept: to pick myself up upon failure. This maybe the key life skill that we need to survive in this tough but interesting life. There are so many things we can do. Some we like and some we don’t like but have to do due to certain responsibilities in life. There are also many things that we want to learn. Some are easy to learn while some take years to learn.
The challenge I have is that I often get excited in doing certain things, which is a good attribute in itself, but afterwards the spirit dies down when things get tough. It is because when things are not according to my plan, I started to feel like a failure and do not want to get back up. So sometimes it can be even worse, I avoid the failure so much that parallelize me. I don’t get to the failure state, but I can’t even move. I just stand at certain point without doing anything just because of fear of failure.
Without training to pick ourselves up, things are very bleak. For instance, today’s sermon reminds us that all people will pass away, not just because the reasons that we can see such as accident or disease, but because of the time that God calls us home. The good news is that we do not need to be afraid of death since Jesus has saved us and death is just a journey that will bring us into eternal life with Him. At the same time, it means that each of us has to deal with the loss of our beloved ones. There will be time when God calls them and we will be in a loss and in grieve. How can we pick ourselves up and continue while cherishing memories with them is important to carry out His calls before we ourselves go back home.
After this writing, there are many things that I want to do. Some will be realized while some will not. So I can practice of picking myself up even when I fail to complete certain things because it is ok to fall as long as we get back up again.
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