<Author>Michael</Author>
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<Nationality>USA</Nationality>
In our lives, failure of one sort or another occurs on a daily basis. Is it good or bad? Various people have different attitudes toward failure. Some believe that failure moves individuals to despair, depression, and the inability to move toward success. It is true, of course, that much of the world's population faces more failure than success daily and is scarcely able to see any good in their own lives or those around them. If one doesn't have adequate food, clean water, health, or shelter, or is displaced by war, then the failure is far more serious than those small failures which those of us who have a better life already face daily. We have a saying in America, "There but for the grace of God, go I. "
Others, often in more highly developed or developing countries, feel that failure helps to strengthen individuals to work harder for future success. This has been the attitude of many innovators recently, particularly in the field of information technology who start us a project, find that it doesn't work or it late fails, and then they begin brand new project. However, I also personally know many young people and families who left their homeland as refugees, but who have been able to overcome terrible life threatening adversities as they begin entirely new lives in unfamiliar locations. Such persons have a remarkable strength of character, and are highly admirable.
Personally, I have had the good luck to be born in a situation where I have seen more successes develop daily in my life than failures. We might use, as maxim from the American novelist, Ernest Hemmingway, as our motto when failure seems to overcome us, " Never give up!"