“The architecture of our future is not only unfinished; the scaffolding has hardly gone up”It's said, "If at first you don't succeed, give up; failure may be your thing."
I love the humor, but I don't believe the sentiment for a moment! Everyone fails. And sometimes in a big way! But it's also true that courage, persistence, faith, and self-confidence can build a mansion on the rubble left by our greatest failures.
You don't have to follow American football to appreciate that, in 1955, Johnny Unitas failed his first qualifying test to play football with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Once on the team, he fumbled three times during his first regular-season game as quarterback. Each of those fumbles, as well as an interception he threw that game, resulted in a touchdown for the other team. But just fifteen years later, in the 1970 commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the National Football League, Johnny Unitas was selected as the greatest quarterback of all time, and the same year the Associated Press named him the outstanding professional football player of the
decade.
What happened? He didn't give in to failure. He made a decision to move on after each defeat. After all, every disappointment presents us with two options: to move on or to quit. And how you decide, in the long run, means everything.
From Lifesupport.
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